A spongy substance that could be mistaken for packing material has the nanotechnology world buzzing. University of Central Florida Associate Professor Lei Zhai and postdoctoral associate Jia... Read more
Engineers from Princeton University have developed power-generating rubber films that could be used to harness natural body movements such as breathing or walking in order to power electroni... Read more
Over the past decade, touchscreens have risen to dominate mobile phone and other mobile consumer electronic device interfaces – and their popularity shows no sign of waning. Capacitive touch... Read more
Researchers have created a new aerogel that boasts amazing strength and an incredibly large surface area. Nicknamed ‘frozen smoke’ due to its translucent appearance, aerogels are manufacture... Read more
Self-healing circuits could lead to lighter, cheaper and more efficient devices, particularly in critical, hard-to-repair situations such as satellites or submarines. Read more
Carbon nanotubes, despite all the technological advances they’re making possible, look pretty boring. When viewed though a microscope, they are, essentially, just straight tubes. Now scienti... Read more
The size and efficiency of current photovoltaic (PV) cells means most people would probably have to cover large areas of their rooftops with such cells to even come close to meeting all thei... Read more
Two years ago, Chinese scientists coated one side of a flag with a thin sheet of nanotubes, then played a song using the flapping sheet-coated flag as a speaker. It was a demonstration of fl... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A new battery demonstrated a power output 10 times higher, for its size, than what is expected of a conventional rechargeable lithium battery Imagine that the same rechar... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The human body is an amazingly complex bit of kit. Replicating it with bionic technology presents challenges on many fronts, including the formidable task of mimicking ou... Read more
Nanotechnology is increasingly a part of our lives, and while it has enormous potential for the effective delivery of medication and fighting cancer, there are concerns about health effects... Read more
This is an exciting advancement in the field of acoustics It is known that intense sound can be produced by electrically-powered nanotubes stretched into sheets, but researchers from Univers... Read more
Scientists have discovered that a moving pulse of heat traveling along the miniscule wires known as carbon nanotubes can cause powerful waves of energy. These “thermopower waves”... Read more