Organic solar cells (OSCs) – promising alternatives to traditional inorganic solar cells – have many features that make them key players in a greener future. One of these features is tunable chemistry, which allows scientists to precisely adjust o...
Sep 10, 2024
An international research team, led by Professor Gong Xiao from the National University of Singapore, has achieved a groundbreaking advancement in photonic-electronic integration. Their work, published in Light: Science & Applications (&qu...
Sep 10, 2024
Hand gestures have become a natural way to communicate with digital systems, but making machines understand those gestures with precision remains a technical challenge. While cameras and wearable devices have been used to translate hand movements ...
Sep 10, 2024
Water contamination by the chemicals used in today’s technology is a rapidly growing problem globally. A recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found that 98 percent of people tested had detectable levels of PFAS, a family of particu...
Sep 10, 2024
The MXene class of materials has many talents. An international team led by HZB chemist Michelle Browne has now demonstrated that MXenes, properly functionalised, are excellent catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction in electrolytic water spli...
Sep 10, 2024
Soft polymers with the combined properties of electrolytes and traditional polymers offer some unique and desirable properties that can be drastically changed on demand.
Sep 10, 2024
Researchers from the University of Cambridge, University College London, Imperial College London, Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT) and Beihang University have developed a wearable ‘smart’ choker for speech recognition, that has the pot...
Sep 10, 2024
A research team led by Prof Zhang Zengming from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has combined nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond with a diamond anvil cell (DAC) to achieve non-...
Sep 9, 2024
A new molecular engineering technique can precisely influence the development of organoids. Microbeads made of specifically folded DNA are used to release growth factors or other signal molecules inside the tissue structures. This gives rise to co...
Sep 9, 2024
Mass spectrometry is a powerful technique that allows scientists to break down and identify the building blocks of just about anything by measuring the mass of the tiny particles of which something is comprised. It has a major limitation, however—...
Sep 9, 2024
