Mid-holidays edition: Peel-and-stick solar panels For all their promise, solar cells have frustrated scientists in one crucial regard: Most are rigid. They must be deployed in stiff and often heavy…
Read MoreSo much to read, so little time. Maybe try anyway: Scientists discover novel way to ‘heal’ defects in materials In a paper published in Nature Materials, a team of researchers…
Read MoreCredit: OSTP. With the election behind it, the Obama administration appears to be quickly returning to a major emphasis on energy and “materials genome” related research. First, according to a…
Read MoreCheck ’em out: New method knocks out stubborn electron problem A newly published article in Physical Review Letters eliminates one of the top unsolved theoretical problems in chemical physics as…
Read MoreNational Nanotechnology Initiative’s schematic representation of knowledge/data flow in Materials Genome-type communities. Credit: NNI. The White House held a special Materials Genome Initiative workshop this week that involved about 170 representatives…
Read More[flash http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/droplet_jaeger_uChi.flv mode=1 f={image=http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/droplet_jaeger_uChi.jpg}] Credit: Miskin and Jaeger; PNAS. Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it … I realize this brief video doesn’t appear to be doing anything…
Read MoreA granular “blob” instead pinchers or fingers at the end of robot arms? Researchers from the University of Chicago, Cornell and iRobot think they have developed a markedly simple step…
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