Spontaneous wide-area spreading of oil on water inspires a facile energy-saving route of crafting electrically conductive nanostructures for future sensor/energy devices. Oil and water do…
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba use ultraviolet light pulses to access ion conductor properties that are otherwise difficult to safely attain. Automotive and other…
A collaborative research team, led by the University of Liverpool, has discovered a new inorganic material with the lowest thermal conductivity ever reported. This discovery…
Great leaps in science and technology have been propelled by recent advances in seeing fast-evolving physical phenomena, as they happen. Femtosecond lasers from the infrared…
Scientists Take First Snapshots of Ultrafast Switching in a Quantum Electronic Device They discover a short-lived state that could lead to faster and more energy-efficient…
As society moves towards a renewable energy future, it’s crucial that solar panels convert light into electricity as efficiently as possible. Some state-of-the-art solar cells…
Understanding cellular metabolism – how a cell uses energy – could be key to treating a wide array of diseases, including vascular diseases and cancer….
Researchers at Tampere University and their collaborators have shown how spectroscopic measurements can be made much faster. By correlating polarization to the color of a…
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have observed the absorption of a single electron by a levitated droplet with such a magnification that it is…
Inspired by nature, researchers at The City College of New York (CCNY) can demonstrate a synthetic strategy to stabilize bio-inspired solar energy harvesting materials. Their…
Glass is one of the most common subjects we see every day, but the detailed structure of this non-metallic and non-liquid material has always been…
The ability to turn on and off a physical process with just one photon is a fundamental building block for quantum photonic technologies. Realizing this…
Chemical rings of carbon and hydrogen atoms curve to form relatively stable structures capable of conducting electricity and more — but how do these curved…
Novel crystalline form of silicon could potentially be used to create next-generation electronic and energy devices. A team led by Carnegie’s Thomas Shiell and Timothy…
Known as “two-dimensional electrolytes,” these smart materials could potentially be used in many things from drug delivery to energy storage. Intelligent materials, the latest revolution…
What does quark-gluon plasma — the hot soup of elementary particles formed a few microseconds after the Big Bang — have in common with tap…
Odd Angles Make for Strong Spin-Spin Coupling Sometimes things are a little out of whack, and it turns out to be exactly what you need….
Using an advanced microscopy technique, Texas A&M researchers have uncovered a twin boundary defect in a soft polymer that has never been observed before….