New Formula Improves Liquid Battery Technology
MIT engineers have developed an improved liquid battery system that could enable renewable energy sources to compete with conventional power plants. Extensive testing has shown…
MIT engineers have developed an improved liquid battery system that could enable renewable energy sources to compete with conventional power plants. Extensive testing has shown…
Researchers from the University of Connecticut and Yale University have developed a new membrane with highly aligned nanoscale pores that open and close in response…
Researchers from Rice University have developed a transparent graphene nanoribbon film that can be used to prevent ice and fog buildup on glass and plastic,…
A team of engineers has developed a new synthetic material that can change its fluorescence and texture in response to a change in voltage applied…
A team of researchers at Brown University’s Center for Capture and Conversion of CO2 have discovered that copper foam could provide a new way of…
A newly published study details how “digital metamaterials” could help bring invisible cloaks closer to reality. The concept of “digital metamaterials” – a simple way…
An international team of researchers helps uncover the mechanism behind solid-solid phase transitions, providing new insight into all sorts of solid-solid phase transformations. Two solids…
New research from the University of Manchester demonstrates how a thin layer of graphene paint can make impermeable and chemically resistant coatings, which could be…
Using a nanoscale structure that consisted of a sequential array of a source electrode, a quantum well, a tunneling barrier, a quantum dot, another tunneling…
A newly published study details how a team of researchers successfully synthesized the 2D material germanene for the first time. Dubbed a “cousin of graphene”,…
Yale researchers have developed a new method that softens bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) sufficiently to allow for shaping – allowing the researchers to use the…
Materials Scientists at MIT have begun to explore the effects of patterned surfaces deep within materials, revealing that control of internal patterns can lead to…
Material scientists from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University have created a new type of carbon nanotubes solar cell that is twice as…
A new study from Delft University reveals that tiny drums of graphene have the potential to act as memory chips in quantum computers. Scientists from…
A team of engineers has developed a new acoustic device that separates tumor cells from blood cells, helping doctors predict whether a tumor is going…
Engineers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a way to design and fabricate new microscale cushioning materials with a broad range of programmable…
An international team of scientists has characterized a new class of materials called protein crystalline frameworks (PCFs). Thanks to certain helper substances, in PCFs proteins…
A new optoelectronic camouflage system inspired by the skins of cephalopods automatically reads its environment and adapts to mimic its surroundings. It could be a…