Transistors, the building blocks of modern devices, act like electronic switches controlling the flow of current across circuits. In the last few...
Research at Sandia National Laboratories has identified a major obstacle to advancing solid-state lithium-ion battery performance in small electronics: the flow of...
Imagine a bottle of laundry detergent that can sense when you're running low on soap — and automatically connect to the internet...
UCLA researchers have designed a device that can use solar energy to inexpensively and efficiently create and store energy, which could be...
Electricity-generating solar greenhouses are outfitted with transparent roof panels embedded with magenta luminescent dye that absorbs light and transfers energy to narrow...
Iron-air batteries promise a considerably higher energy density than present-day lithium-ion batteries. In addition, their main constituent - iron - is an...
Physicists at Aalto University have made a breakthrough in revising methods largely discarded 15 years ago. They have discovered a microscopic mechanism...
Researchers have developed a new type of cooling system for high-performance radars and supercomputers that circulates a liquid coolant directly into electronic...
Imagine printing off a wristband that charges your smartphone or electric car with cheap supplies from a local hardware store. That’s the...
Using flexible conducting polymers and novel circuitry patterns printed on paper, researchers have demonstrated proof-of-concept wearable thermoelectric generators that can harvest energy...
Wind and solar power are increasingly popular sources for renewable energy. But intermittency issues keep them from connecting widely to electric grids...
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has created the most functional flexible transistor in the world — and with it, a...
A recent study, led by Professor Kyoung Jin Choi in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of...
It's happened to all of us before. We drag our feet across the carpet and reach to open the door, only to...
As 3-D printing has become a mainstream technology, industry and academic researchers have been investigating printable structures that will fold themselves into...