Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are scaling up the production of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT). This incredible material could revolutionize diverse commercial pro...
Nov 5, 2022
Microplastics are a bane that harms wildlife, but you may be staring at the solution to this problem in your breakfast. Princeton researchers have used egg whites to create a lightweight, porous aerogel that can remove microplastics and salt from ...
Nov 4, 2022
By adding periodic nanostructures that look like egg-crate foam to tandem solar cells made of silicon and perovskites, researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Germany have achieved a certified efficiency of 29.8 percent.
Nov 4, 2022
A team of researchers from Singapore has reported the development of a skin-mimicking scaffold by parallelly aligning nanofibers made up of a mixture of polycaprolactone (PCL) and gelatin that enhances wound healing. Their research has recently be...
Nov 4, 2022
Plant-derived materials such as cellulose often exhibit thermally insulating properties. A new material made from nanoscale cellulose fibers shows the reverse, high thermal conductivity. This makes it useful in areas previously dominated by synthe...
Nov 4, 2022
A research team led by Prof. Liu Changsong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a set of simulation software for accumulative displacement damage in nanocrystalline metals, which was named ...
Nov 4, 2022
As the world becomes more technology-driven than ever, there is an increasing demand for better and quicker electronics and computers. Spintronics is a new innovation that encodes data using an electron’s spin as well as its charge state, thereby ...
Nov 4, 2022
Plant-derived materials such as cellulose often exhibit thermally insulating properties. A new material made from nanoscale cellulose fibers shows the reverse, high thermal conductivity. This makes it useful in areas previously dominated by synthe...
Nov 4, 2022
Molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2) is a popular transition metallic dichalcogenide owing to its heterogeneous character, which includes metallic, semiconducting, and topological states. Many research groups are currently focused on the synthesis of Mo...
Nov 4, 2022
An article accepted for publication in the journal Advanced Materials reports the production of liquid-only reconfigurable electronics using the self-assembly of two-dimensional titanium carbide MXene nanostructures.
Nov 4, 2022
