Stanford Physicists Develop an Electrically Driven Polariton Laser
Making use of the unique physical properties of bosons, Stanford physicists have created an electrically driven polariton laser that uses less power than conventional lasers…
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Inexpensive Skin Patch Warns When It’s Time to Get Out of the Sun
A biomedical engineering design team from Michigan Tech has developed an inexpensive skin patch that warns the wearer when it’s time to get out of…
Stanford Engineers Develop Flexible Skin-Like Heart Monitor
By combining layers of flexible materials into pressure sensors, engineers have developed a wearable heart monitor that is thinner than a dollar bill. Most of…
Organic Photovoltaics Potentially as Inexpensive as Paint
Researchers at the University at Buffalo are working on the development of organic photovoltaics that use polymers and small molecules that are carbon-based and can…
Thermal Cloak Molds the Flow of Heat Around an Object
Scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have constructed a micro-structured thermal cloak that molds the flow of heat around an object. By means of…
New Metamaterial Doubles the Range of Light that Can Be Manipulated
By designing a broadband metamaterial that more than doubles the range of wavelengths of light that can be manipulated, Stanford scientists have taken an important…
Squaraine Dye Improves Polymer Solar Cell Efficiency
By adding a squaraine dye into polymer solar cells that are based on Forster resonance energy transfer, Yale scientists achieved a 38 percent increase in…
Robotic RoboBees Achieve First Controlled Flight
A new study and video details the first controlled flight of robotic RoboBees. Last summer, in a Harvard robotics laboratory, an insect took flight. Half…
3D Printed “Bionic” Ear Exhibits Enhanced Auditory Sensing
Researchers at Princeton created a 3D printed “bionic” ear that exhibits enhanced auditory sensing for radio frequency reception, merging biologic and nanoelectronic functionalities via 3D…
New Approach Improves Biomass-to-Fuel Process
A newly published study describes a new approach to converting non-food based biomass into fuels, allowing researchers to generate a range of alkanes from a…
LED Streetlight Design Reduces Light Pollution, Saves Energy
In a new study, a team of researchers report the development of a new street lighting design that harnesses high-efficiency LEDs and ensures they shine…
Electrospinning Technique Yields Simultaneously Strong and Tough Nanofibers
Using a technique called electrospinning, researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have developed an exceptionally thin polyacrilonitrile nanofiber that is both strong and tough. University…
Researchers Reveal the Cause of LED Efficiency Droop
A team of researchers have conclusively identified Auger recombination as the mechanism that causes LEDs to be less efficient at high drive currents. Santa Barbara,…
InGaAs Nanowires Grown on Graphene Have Unique Structure
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have grown nanowires of the material indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) on a sheet of graphene, discovering that…
Scientists View Self-Assembling Gold Nanoparticles in Real Time
Nanoscientists from the Argonne National Laboratory have viewed the self-assembly of nanoparticle chains in real-time, providing new data that could lead to new materials used…
New Technique Yields a Major Boost in Solar-Cell Efficiency
In a newly published study, MIT researchers detail the technique they used to develop a photovoltaic device that generates more than one electron per photon,…
Spray-on Mixture Combines Carbon Nanotubes with Ceramic
Scientists have developed “super-nanotubes” by using a spray-on mixture that combines the optical, thermal and electrical properties of nanotubes with the robustness of the high-temperature…
New Solar Structure Cools Buildings in Full Sunlight
Scientists at Stanford University have designed an entirely new form of cooling structure that cools when the sun is shining by reflecting sunlight and emitting…
