Caltech Engineers Develop Self-Healing Circuits
Researchers at Caltech have developed self-healing electronic chips that are capable of detecting and quickly responding to any number of possible assaults in order to…
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New Spectroscopic Method Could Improve Optical Devices
Developed by a team of researchers, energy-momentum spectroscopy allows scientists to better understand how light is emitted from layered nanomaterials and other thin films, possibly…
A Lithium-Ion Battery That Can Stretch and Be Recharged Wirelessly
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a wirelessly rechargeable lithium-ion battery that can stretch up to 300 percent of its original size and still power…
A New Method for Observing High-Temperature Superconductors
A team of scientists from MIT and Brookhaven National Laboratory have found a new method to study fluctuating charge-density waves in a superconducting material, possibly…
A Cost-Effective Fabrication Method for Micro-Scale Graphene-Based Supercapacitors
Scientists at UCLA have developed a new technique that uses a DVD burner to fabricate micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitors that can charge and discharge a hundred…
Scientists Develop Silicon-Based Light-Emitting Diodes (SiLEDs)
Researchers have developed silicon-based light-emitting diodes (SiLEDs) that have the ability to change color from the deep red down to the yellow-orange spectral region by…
Engineers Show Feasibility of Organic Topological Insulators
Engineers at the University of Utah are the first to demonstrate organic topological insulators, organic materials that conduct electricity on their molecular edges, but act…
MOF Powered by Sunlight Could Help Drastically Cut Carbon Emissions
Researchers from Monash University and CSIRO have discovered a photosensitive metal-organic framework (MOF) that utilizes sunlight to release large amounts of stored carbon. Emissions from…
Layered Oxide Heterostructures Produce Efficient Solar Cells
In a newly published study, an international team of scientists has shown that layered oxide heterostructures can be used to create a new kind of…
Copper Sulfide Could Enable Faster Memory Chips and More Efficient Batteries
A new study from SLAC and Stanford researchers examines the atomic-scale details of how superionic nanoscale materials switch from a state that is poorly conducting…
Researchers Develop a Self-Charging Power Cell
Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a self-charging power cell that directly converts mechanical energy to chemical energy, storing the power until…
Triangular Layers of Tungsten Disulfide May Have Applications in Optical Technology
Researchers at Penn State have created triangular single layers of tungsten disulfide that exhibit unusual photoluminescent properties and may have potential applications in optical technology….
Growing Graphene Without the Defects
Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a new way of growing graphene without the defects that weaken it and prevent electrons from flowing…
3D Microchip Allows Information to Travel in Three Dimensions
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a new type of microchip that allows information to move in three dimensions, left to right, back…
A Step Towards 2D Devices, Hybrid Graphene/Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Researchers at Rice University have shown the ability to pattern a conductor (graphene) and insulator (hexagonal boron nitride) into a one-atom-thick hybrid of graphene and…
Controlled Graphene Crumpling Used as Artificial Muscle Actuators
By developing a method to reversibly control the crumpling and unfolding of large-area graphene sheets, researchers at Duke University were able to demonstrate that crumpled…
Scientists Create “Ghost-Illusion” Cloaking Device
Using the space transformation theory and engineering capability of metamaterials, researchers from Southeast University in China, National University of Singapore and University of Birmingham have…
Black Silicon Improves the Efficiency of Solar Cells
In a newly published study, researchers from Aalto University show that black silicon can improve the efficiency of solar cells by improving the light absorption…