Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a first-of-its-kind self-healing gel that repairs and connects electronic circuits, crea... Read more
A promising light source for optoelectronic chips can be tuned to different frequencies. Chips that use light, rather than electricity, to move data would consume much less power — and energ... Read more
The scientists conclude that the microswimmers show great promise for future biomedical uses In the quest to shrink motors so they can maneuver in tiny spaces like inside and between human c... Read more
Gold nanoparticles with special coatings can deliver drugs or biosensors to a cell’s interior without damaging it Cells are very good at protecting their precious contents — and as a r... Read more
Nanostructured device controls the intensity, phase, and polarization of light for wide applications in optics Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (S... Read more
Molecules could soon be “scanned” in a fashion similar to imaging screenings at airports, thanks to a detector developed by University of Pittsburgh physicists. The detector, featured in a r... Read more
Stanford University scientists have created the thinnest, most efficient absorber of visible light on record. The nanosized structure, thousands of times thinner than an ordinary sheet of pa... Read more
Atom-thick photovoltaic sheets could pack hundreds of times more power per weight than conventional solar cells. Most efforts at improving solar cells have focused on increasing the efficien... Read more
Taking inspiration from trees, scientists have developed a battery made from a sliver of wood coated with tin that shows promise for becoming a tiny, long-lasting, efficient and environmenta... Read more
New technology could help power portable devices like satellite phones and radios Super-small particles of silicon react with water to produce hydrogen almost instantaneously, according to U... Read more
The team’s experiments showed that the efficiency of heat transfer using these treated surfaces could be increased by 30 percent Scalable nanopatterned surfaces designed by MIT researchers c... Read more
Stanford researchers have developed a battery that takes advantage of the difference in salinity between freshwater and seawater to produce electricity. Anywhere freshwater enters the sea, s... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Ordinary cotton and polyester fabrics have been turned into batteries that retain their flexibility. The demonstration is a boost to the nascent field of “wearable... Read more
New ultra-clean nanowires produced at the Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen will have a central role in the development of new high-efficiency solar cells and electronics on a na... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket ca... Read more
