Nearly 70 percent of the energy produced in the United States each year is wasted as heat. Much of that heat is less than 100 degrees Celsius and emanates from things like computers, cars or... Read more
“By tuning the sound waves, we can create any pattern we want on the surface of a microchip,” In a breakthrough discovery, researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have harnes... Read more
The days of self-assembling nanoparticles taking hours to form a film over a microscopic-sized wafer are over. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley Nation... Read more
The fabrication and laser writing of this photonic material is simple and low cost. Swinburne researchers have developed a high-quality continuous graphene oxide thin film that shows potenti... Read more
The work opens a new door for the production of cheap hydrogen Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that a one-atom thick film of molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) may work as a... Read more
Teams from Stanford and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln collaborate to make thin, transparent semiconductors that could become the foundation for cheap, high-performance displays. Two uni... Read more
Understanding how hydration affects color-changing windows that optimize solar energy transmission can boost their efficiency and durability Electrochromic materials dynamically alter how th... Read more
Surprising result: Graphene retains its properties even when coated with silicon Graphene has extreme conductivity and is completely transparent while being inexpensive and nontoxic. This ma... Read more
Tiny Nanoscale Filaments Could be Breakthrough for Smaller, Denser Memory Devices Memory based on electrically-induced “resistive switching” effects have generated a great deal o... Read more
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating high-quality semiconductor thin films at the atomic scale – meaning the films are only one atom thi... Read more
Devices a thousand times smaller than those of today’s microtechnologies could be mass-produced Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Univers... Read more
The shingles carry a 20-year warranty. Installing photovoltaic panels is certainly the most common method of generating solar power on a rooftop, and in fact many people might think it’s the... Read more
The results could have a great impact on the cost Dye-sensitized solar cells that use carbon nanotube thin films as transparent electrodes offer significant cost savings. Solar energy is one... Read more