McGill researchers discover new way to bond particles using ultrasound to form new materials

Researchers at McGill University have discovered a new way to join materials together using ultrasound.

Teaching nanowires self-control from the outset enabled Weizmann Institute scientists to produce complex electronic nanocomponents

For the first time, the scientists have created self-integrating nanowires whose position, length and direction can be f…

Sparked by wonder material graphene, a “gold rush” on new materials made layer by layer with atomic precision is about to begin, according to Nobel Laureate Andre Geim.

In a perspective review written for Nature, Sir Andre and Dr Irina Grigorieva, from The University of Manchester, discus…

A research team led by Ali Javey, UC Berkeley associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, has c…

Rice University lab grows ‘bottom-up’ nanoribbons for the first time

Concentric hexagons of graphene grown in a furnace at Rice University represent the first time anyone has synthesized gr…

Physicists at the University of Michigan say they have devised a more elegant way to fine-tune the behavior of topologic…

Networks of spherical nanoparticles embedded in elastic materials may make the best stretchy conductors yet, engineering…

A novel material with world record breaking surface area and water adsorption abilities has been synthesized by research…

In a pellet of glass the size of an apple seed, University of Michigan engineering researchers have packed seven devices…

Embedded diodes boost Rice University invention’s potential as robust, roomy memory

With gigabytes of flash memory becoming steadily cheaper, a 1k nonvolatile memory unit has little practical use. But as…

New material created at Rice University with graphene oxide flakes

The fiber spun at Rice is unique for the strength of its knots. Most fibers are most likely to snap under tension at the…

2D shape-memory polymers assemble into 3D when an electric current is applied (Chemistry World)

Scientists in the US have developed flat pack structures that can autonomously assemble into three-dimensional shapes on…

Nanoscientists publish in top scientific journal Science

Researchers of MESA+, the research institute for nanotechnology of the University of Twente, in cooperation with researc…

An international group of researchers, headed by Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, are the first in the world…

Tom Wong, a graduate student in physics and David Meyer, professor of mathematics at the University of California, San D…

‘Wi-Vi’ is based on a concept similar to radar and sonar imaging.

The system, called Wi-Vi, is based on a concept similar to radar and sonar imaging. But in contrast to radar and sonar,…

Ultra-light, high performance electrical wiring, made from carbon instead of copper, has been developed in a usable form for the first time.

Super-strong wires made from carbon nanotubes, which could significantly improve the efficiency with which electricity i…

UC Santa Barbara researchers demonstrate first n-type field effect transistors on monolayer tungsten diselenide with record performance

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, in collaboration with University of Notre Dame, have recently demonstrated the highest…

3-D printing now can be used to print lithium-ion microbatteries the size of a grain of sand. The printed microbatteries…

MIT researchers discover efficient control of magnetism in chiral ferromagnets.

A magnetic phenomenon newly discovered by MIT researchers could lead to much faster, denser and more energy-efficient ch…