With its two chief properties of excellent electrical conductivity and optical transparency, indium tin oxide (ITO) can be found in transparent conductive coatings for displays fou... Read more
To rebuild damaged parts of a human body from scratch is a dream that has long fired human imagination, from Mary Shelley’s Doctor Frankenstein to modern day surgeons. Now, a... Read more
Berkeley Lab scientists have developed a nanoscale rope Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have coaxed polymer... Read more
Image by bradleygee via Flickr Silver is a known killer of harmful bacteria, and has already been incorporated into things such as antibacterial keyboards, washing machines, water... Read more
While rooftops are the obvious place to put solar cells to generate clean electricity for the home, we’ve seen a number of technologies aimed at expanding the potential solar colle... Read more
As their name suggests, most existing water purifying filters clean the water by physically trapping or filtering out bacteria. Stanford researchers have now developed a new kind o... Read more
Image via Wikipedia At the nanoscale chemistry is different and nanoparticles don’t behave like normal particles. Nanoparticles tend to be more chemically reactive than ordinary-si... Read more
