The quest to create artificial 'squid skin' - camouflaging metamaterials that can 'see' colors and automatically blend into the background - is one step closer to reality, thanks to a breakthrough color-display technology unveiled this week.
Sep 16th, 2014
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Researchers measure the quantum fluctuations behind a novel magnetic material's ultra-cold ferromagnetic phase transition.
Sep 15th, 2014
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Researchers have developed a technique for controlling the surface tension of liquid metals by applying very low voltages, opening the door to a new generation of reconfigurable electronic circuits, antennas and other technologies.
Sep 15th, 2014
Read moreThe Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) today announced it is partnering with Graphene Frontiers, LLC, a world leader in the production of graphene for commercial and industrial applications, to develop next generation graphene-based processes, technologies, and techniques that will enable revolutionary innovation in the electronics industry.
Sep 15th, 2014
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The method is facile and easily scal�able, which will allow tailoring the phys�ical prop�er�ties of nan�otube net�works for use in appli�ca�tions ranging from elec�tronic devices to CNT-reinforced com�posite mate�rials found in every�thing from cars to sports equipment.
Sep 15th, 2014
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The very idea of fibers made of carbon nanotubes is neat, but Rice University scientists are making them neat - literally. The single-walled carbon nanotubes in new fibers line up like a fistful of uncooked spaghetti through a process designed by chemist Angel Mart� and his colleagues.
Sep 15th, 2014
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Researchers have developed anew method for the synthesis of an ultrahard material that exceeds diamond in hardness. They describe a method that allows for the synthesis of ultrahard fullerite, a polymer composed of fullerenes, or spherical molecules made of carbon atoms.
Sep 15th, 2014
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Physicists unveil the microscopic mechanism behind the puzzling co-non-solvency effect that leads to smart polymer collapse in a mixture of good solvents.
Sep 15th, 2014
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Novel dialysis-like therapeutic device inspired by the spleen quickly filters bacteria, fungi and toxins.
Sep 15th, 2014
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Einzelne Photonen in einem Quantenpunkt erzeugen und seine Information zerst�rungsfrei auslesen: Diese Technologie er�ffnet neue Wege in der Quanteninformationsverarbeitung und -�bertragung, die f�r k�nftige Computeranwendungen wegweisend sein k�nnen.
Sep 15th, 2014
Read moreNew work demonstrates that varistors and transistors are inherently coupled devices. These hybrid devices can simultaneously be used in the same electronic circuit as a varistor to protect the circuit elements against overshoot of prescribed voltage supply and as a transistor for signal amplification and electronic switch.
Sep 15th, 2014
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A comprehensive look at how tiny particles in a lithium ion battery electrode behave shows that rapid-charging the battery and using it to do high-power, rapidly draining work may not be as damaging as researchers had thought - and that the benefits of slow draining and charging may have been overestimated. The results challenge the prevailing view that 'supercharging' batteries is always harder on battery electrodes than charging at slower rates.
Sep 14th, 2014
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NATO organizes a workshop to improve the detection and decontamination of biological and chemical agents.
Sep 14th, 2014
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In future, some diseases might be diagnosed earlier and treated more effectively. Researchers have developed an optical method that makes individual proteins, such as the proteins characteristic of some cancers, visible.
Sep 13th, 2014
Read moreResearchers have developed a methodology for quantitatively describing the dynamic behaviors of complicated sugar chains in solution at atomic resolution by combining a sophisticated NMR spectroscopic approach with an ingenious molecular dynamics simulation technique.
Sep 13th, 2014
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This article briefly reviews a new family of multiferroic materials - hexagonal rare earth ferrites - that have been demonstrated ferroelectric and ferromagnetic simultaneously by experiments.
Sep 12th, 2014
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