A team of researchers from Denmark has solved one of the biggest challenges in making effective nanoelectronics based on graphene. The new results have just been published in Natur... Read more
New approach holds potential to slash research and development costs for designer materials and technologies of the future Researchers at Aalto University and the Technical Univers... Read more
A new type of nanocatalyst can result in the long-awaited commercial breakthrough for fuel cell cars. Research results from Chalmers University of Technology and Technical Universi... Read more
Microfluidic device generates passive hydraulic power, may be used to make small robots move. Trees and other plants, from towering redwoods to diminutive daisies, are nature’s hyd... Read more
Microbes in the gut can “disarm” antibiotics, leading to antibiotic resistance and incurable infections. A new method makes it possible to quickly detect resistance genes and, henc... Read more
An international group of researchers has synthesized an extremely rare mineral and used it as a catalyst precursor to improve two reactions that are of great importance to the che... Read more
The field of plasmonics has offered some pretty exciting technologies over the past few years, including improved photovoltaics, LEDs, and a host of other optoelectronic applicatio... Read more
Researchers at Linköping University’s Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Sweden, have developed power paper – a new material with an outstanding ability to store energy. The materi... Read more
As things stand, a suspected contamination of drinking water requires that a technician first be sent out to take samples from the water supply. The samples are then cultured and a... Read more
Materials that change temperature in response to mechanical stress could make possible solid-state refrigerators that are not only more efficient than traditional vapor compression... Read more
Professor Otmar Hilliges and his staff at ETH Zurich have developed a new app enabling users to operate their smartphone with gestures. This development expands the range of potent... Read more
Professor Lars Ramkilde Knudsen from DTU Compute has invented a new way to encrypt telephone conversations that makes it very difficult to ‘eavesdrop’. His invention can help to cu... Read more
“One should consider that the production cost of this type of solar cell is several orders of magnitude lower than for conventional solar cells.” The sharp X-ray vision... Read more
