From wind turbines and solar photovoltaics to grey water recycling and electric vehicles, technology is making it ever easier for us to...
With a surface resembling that of plants, solar cells improve light-harvesting and thus generate more power. Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology...
Researchers have developed an integrated, wearable system that monitors a user’s environment, heart rate and other physical attributes with the goal of...
Scientists at UC San Diego, MIT and Harvard University have engineered “topological plexcitons,” energy-carrying particles that could help make possible the design...
A family of compounds known as perovskites, which can be made into thin films with many promising electronic and optical properties, has...
A consortium led by the University of Wollongong (UOW) aims to develop ‘game-changing’ sodium-ion battery technology to help drive increased use of...
“Flat” and “rigid” are terms typically used to describe electronic devices. But the increasing demand for flexible, wearable electronics, sensors, antennas and...
Missouri University of Science and Technology researchers are working to solve the problem of short-life of lithium-ion batteries like those used in...
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a one-step, facile method to pattern graphene by using stencil mask and...
Physicists have discovered radical new properties in a nanomaterial, opening new possibilities for highly efficient thermophotovoltaic cells that could one day harvest...
An unexpected discovery has led to a rechargeable battery that’s as inexpensive as conventional car batteries, but has a much higher energy...
The transistor is the most fundamental building block of electronics, used to build circuits capable of amplifying electrical signals or switching them...
Carbon fibers derived from a sustainable source, a type of wild mushroom, and modified with nanoparticles have been shown to outperform conventional...
Crumple a piece of paper and it’s probably destined for the trash can, but new research shows that repeatedly crumpling sheets of...
Liquid metal batteries, invented by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Donald Sadoway and his students a decade ago, are a promising...