A solar cell that uses bacteria to convert light to energy, a “bioscaffold” from graphene foam that helps grow new cartilage, and other materials stories that may be of interest for July 11, 2018.
Read More
Researchers have discovered that a layer of fullerenes can enable electrons to travel farther in organic solar cells. Their findings are a major breakthrough in organic solar research, and could lead to less expensive solar power in the future.
Read More
A Rutgers University research team has created a powerful and more efficient way to cool those tiny chips in computer devices using a combination of graphene and boron nitride.
Read More
A better method to manufacture silicon nanowires, new 3-D design for mobile microbatteries, and other materials stories that may be of interest for October 26, 2016.
Read More
Engineering LEGO-like building blocks, flexible lithium-ions are evolving batteries, and other materials stories that may be of interest for October 19, 2016.
Read More
The continuing trend for electronics is to pack more power into a smaller device that requires less energy input. Two significant materials research advances—one published in Nature and one published in Science—are moving precisely in that direction.
Read More
Nanotechnology cleans water for developing nations, water vapor sets oxides aflutter, and other materials stories that may be of interest for October 12, 2016.
Read More
Researchers at Michigan Technological University (Houghton, Mich.) are “revamping the fundamental base of transistors and creating a series of stepping-stones that use an electron movement called quantum tunneling” to change the wearable tech game, according to a university news release.
Read More
Electron interplay at ultrahigh pressures, electron camera catches atomic wrinkles, and other materials stories that may be of interest for September 29, 2015.
Read More
Another insight into glass formation, methane conversion by copper zeolites, and other materials stories that may be of interest for July 8, 2015.
Read More