Marks the beginnings of the field of bionanoprotonics. One of the barriers that stops us from plugging computers into our brains and replacing our eyeballs with cameras is the fact that biol... Read more
A fully functional, fast switching and printable transistor in cheap plastic is invented by researcher Lars Herlogsson, Linkoping University in Sweden. All six articles in his doctoral thesi... Read more
Apple just filed a patent for a simple, but rather ingenious invention that could cut overall power consumption in any electronic device that depends on a power supply unit (PSU). Apple thin... Read more
Carbon nanotubes offer big promise in a small package. For instance, these tiny cylinders of carbon molecules theoretically can carry 1,000 times more electric current than a metal conductor... Read more
Silicon chips shuffling all those electrons around inside modern PCs, gaming consoles and home theater systems generate a lot of heat that needs to be dissipated to stop the machines going i... Read more
New Conducting Properties Discovered in Bacteria-Produced Wires The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens t... Read more
Research Could Help Replace Electronic Components With Optical Technology Electrical engineers at Duke University have developed a material that allows them to manipulate light in much the s... Read more
The Nobel Prize winning scientists Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov have taken a major step forward towards creating electronics using the wonder material graphene. Writin... Read more
Scientists are reporting a key advance toward the long-awaited era of “single-molecule electronics,” when common electronic circuits in computers, smart phones, audio players, an... Read more
Graphene has already brought us the world’s smallest transistor, a triple-mode, single transistor amplifier and a supercapacitor that can store as much energy as a battery while recharging i... Read more