Could lead to a 50 percent increase in the production of biofuels UCLA chemical engineering researchers have created a new synthetic metabolic pathway for breaking down glucose that could le... Read more
A major scientific breakthrough in the development of renewable energy sources and other important chemicals The research team succeeded in producing 580 mg of gasoline per litre of cultured... Read more
This innovation holds the potential to benefit lab-on-chip devices, high-throughput assays, self-cleaning surfaces, and many other applications requiring the motion of liquid drops on solid... Read more
Potential applications range from air-quality monitors to electronic skin Researchers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) are showing the way toward low-cost, industrial-scale manufa... Read more
University of Adelaide researchers have developed a process for turning waste plastic bags into a high-tech nanomaterial. The innovative nanotechnology uses non-biodegradable plastic grocery... Read more
The experiment may result in practical applications in electrical conductivity and more. Eden Steven, a physicist at Florida State University’s MagLab facility, discovered that simple method... Read more
It could be a better semiconductor than silicon Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms arrayed in a honeycomb pattern, just a single atom thick. It could be a better semiconductor than silicon... Read more
The experiment generated hydrogen at room temperature without the need for costly catalysts or electrodes In the latest advance in efforts to find an inexpensive way to make hydrogen from or... Read more
Physicists from Bielefeld University have developed a new method of fabrication for ultrathin carbon membranes In the future, carbon nanomembranes are expected to be able to filter out very... Read more
Ultra-light, high performance electrical wiring, made from carbon instead of copper, has been developed in a usable form for the first time. Super-strong wires made from carbon nanotubes, wh... Read more
Ammonium salts could provide a viable way of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere via carbon mineralization Removing excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere may be essential t... Read more
Frustration led to revelation when Rice University scientists determined how graphene might be made useful for high-capacity batteries. Calculations by the Rice lab of theoretical physicist... Read more
Paper, being a light and foldable raw material, is a cost-efficient and simple means of generating electrically conducting structures Paper is becoming a high-tech material. Researchers at t... Read more
Thin Layer of Germanium May Replace Silicon in Semiconductors The same material that formed the first primitive transistors more than 60 years ago can be modified in a new way to advance fut... Read more
Wouldn’t it be convenient if you could reverse the rusting of your car by shining a bright light on it? It turns out that this concept works for undoing oxidation on copper nanoparticl... Read more
