Tag: Materials

November 1, 2019

Gamers designing proteins, raw food changing the gut, and a toxin-absorbing MOFCredit: (Credit: Gemma Smith/Manchester University) The unique ways in ...

New technique lets researchers map strain in next-gen solar cells

October 31, 2019

Credit: Jariwala et al., Joule, 2019 People can be good at hiding strain, and we're not alone. Solar cells have ...

Mimicking body’s circulatory AC could keep airplanes, cars and computers cooler

October 31, 2019

Drexel researchers' program designs materials with human-like microvasculatureCredit: Drexel University The complex network of veins that keeps us cool during ...

Efficient hydrogen conversion via PEC water splitting using hematite mesocrystals

October 31, 2019

Credit: Kobe University A research group led by Associate Professor Takashi Tachikawa of Kobe University's Molecular Photoscience Research Center has ...

Novel NRL instrument enhances ability to measure nuclear materials

Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Nicholas E. M. Pasquini) WASHINGTON - Researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) designed ...

System provides cooling with no electricity

Passive device relies on a layer of material that blocks incoming sunlight but lets heat radiate awayCredit: Courtesy of Arny ...

Visible light and nanoparticle catalysts produce desirable bioactive molecules

Simple photochemical method takes advantage of quantum mechanicsCredit: Credit: Yishu Jiang, Northwestern University Northwestern University chemists have used visible light ...

Concrete with improved impact endurance for defense structures developed at FEFU

Credit: FEFU press office Engineers from the Military Studies Center at Far Eastern Federal University (MSC FEFU) developed a brand-new ...

A plethora of states in magic-angle graphene

Credit: ICFO Last year, graphene made another major splash in the headlines when scientists discovered that by simply rotating two ...

Nanoceramics from the ball mill

Nanometer-sized corundum particles for automotive catalysts and particularly stable ceramics can now be produced amazingly easilyCredit: Amol Amrute, MPI für ...

Lithium ion battery design can charge an electric vehicle in 10 minutes

Credit: Chao-Yang Wang Group Scientist have developed a lithium ion battery that charges at an elevated temperature to increase reaction ...

Using computational chemistry to produce cheaper infrared plastic lenses

The new material could bring consumers affordable access to consumer-grade infrared detectors in products such as autonomous cars and in-home ...

Study shows ability to detect light from UV to the IR optical regimes using spin currents

Credit: Joshua Walker A University of Wyoming researcher and his team have shown that the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) can ...

An electronic signal expands the material by a factor of 100

Reversible electronic solid-gel switching of a conjugated polymerCredit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linkoping University, have ...

Intuitive in the virtual reality

International research team develops bimodal 'electronic skin'Credit: HZDR / D. Makarov Through the crafty use of magnetic fields, scientists from ...

Flexing for success from Saudi Arabia to Silicon Valley

Let there be…a new light

Scientists synthesized light with new intrinsic chirality to tell mirror molecules apartCredit: Steven Roberts Light is the fastest way to ...

Soft double gyroids are unique, but imperfect, crystals

Rice materials scientists detail unexpected distortions in self-assembling polymersCredit: Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019) - What appears ...

Topological nanoelectronics

Credit: Picture: Christoph Fleckenstein / University of Wuerzburg Topological insulators are materials with astonishing properties: Electric current flows only along ...

An amazingly simple recipe for nanometer-sized corundum