Researchers have developed a cellulose-based material, a mixture of hydroxpropyl cellulose with water, carbon nanotubes and cellulose nanofibrils, that changes color when heated or stretched - without the addition of any pigments.
Jul 4, 2023
Scientists have developed a nanosheet device with the highest energy storage performance yet seen.
Jul 4, 2023
Silicon has reigned supreme in electronics for the better part of a century, and now a new version might help extend its use into the future. Engineers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have discovered a brand new form of the material call...
Jul 4, 2023
Researchers have developed a novel way of detecting brain cancer, using nanowires to ‘catch-and-release’ DNA in urine, enabling them to detect mutations that signify the presence of a brain tumor. Their method may one day mean that invasive tissue...
Jul 4, 2023
Technological advances, like bronze, iron, steel, and silicon shaped history, while graphene, a supermaterial, may revolutionize physics and engineering's future. Read the article to learn more.
Jul 4, 2023
Superconductor-based cameras that can detect a single photon—the smallest smidgeon of light—have existed for 20 years, but they’ve remained confined to laboratories due to the inability to scale them past a few pixels. Now, a team at the National ...
Jul 3, 2023
The fast switching and modulation of light is at the heart, among other things, of modern data transfer, in which information is sent through fiber optic cables in the shape of modulated light beams. It has been possible for several years now to m...
Jul 3, 2023
Researchers have created an antenna for light sources on a chip using an unusual placement of a semiconductor material. In the future, efficient nanoscale LEDs and lasers could be produced in this way.
Jul 3, 2023
Researchers at ETH Zürich, Empa, ICFO and Japan's National Institute for Materials Science have created an antenna for light sources on a chip using an unusual placement of a semiconductor material. In the future, efficient nanoscale LEDs and...
Jul 3, 2023
A facile technique for reproducibly creating Swiss-cheese-like nanomaterials has been developed by researchers at KAUST. This material, and the method required to create it, could help in the development of further advanced materials with applicat...
Jul 3, 2023
