Salt crystals can act as a template for the growth of thin sheets of conductive metal oxides that are highly effective at storing energy.
28 April 2016
Scientists have invented a metal nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times.
27 April 2016
Using a new synthesis approach, scientists have developed a polar metal that possesses both insulating and conducting properties.
27 April 2016
View the live 2016 Elsevier Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday April 27th, 2016.
26 April 2016
Scientists have developed a quick and efficient method for exfoliating atomically-thin flakes of phosphorene from black phosphorous.
26 April 2016
View details about the Fifth International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials, taking place in March 2017.
22 April 2016
Scientists have discovered that the strong force-field emitted by a Tesla coil can cause carbon nanotubes to self-assemble into long wires.
22 April 2016
Ultra-thin ferroelectric films based on hafnium oxide could produce non-volatile memory elements called ferroelectric tunnel junctions.
22 April 2016
perovskite solar cells improved by squeezing the material between diamonds
21 April 2016Laurie Donaldson
By using a scanning tunneling microscope to image pairs of electrons in a superconductor, scientists have discovered a new state of electronic matter.
21 April 2016
Scientists predict that in certain crystal materials current can only flow through a set of surface channels that resemble an hourglass.
20 April 2016
Using vacuum filtration to produce controllable carbon nanotubes films.
20 April 2016Laurie Donaldson
Quantum spin fingerprints of two-dimensional magnetic materials
19 April 2016David Bradley
Quantum feedback in synthetic diamond
19 April 2016David Bradley
Applying a magnetic field to a novel non-magnetic metal made it conduct 70% more electricity, even though basic physics would have predicted the opposite.
15 April 2016
A combined electrolyte and separator containing hexagonal boron nitride can allow lithium-ion batteries to work at high temperatures.
14 April 2016
Magnetic transfer could lead the way to spintronics
14 April 2016David Bradley
Valleytronics based on two-dimensional semiconductors.
13 April 2016David Bradley
Researchers have created a stretchable photodetector with enhanced, strain-tunable photoresponsivity by engineering 2D graphene into 3D structures.
12 April 2016
Details of the Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids winners 2016.
11 April 2016
Applying pressure can change the properties of the crystalline materials known as perovskites and how they respond to light.
11 April 2016
By combining graphene with molecules capable of altering their structure on exposure to light, scientists have created light-responsive molecular switches.
11 April 2016
A carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric material that captures and uses waste heat to generate electricity.
8 April 2016
Wrinkled and crumpled graphene sheets offer improved properties.
8 April 2016Laurie Donaldson
Scientists have developed a simple filtration process for creating flexible, wafer-scale films of highly aligned and closely-packed carbon nanotubes.
6 April 2016
Scientists have improved the performance of a solid battery electrolyte through chemical modification and pulverization.
6 April 2016
Rediscovered synthesis methods for transition metal dichalcogenides could enable future optical, electronic, and mechanical devices.
6 April 2016Cordelia Sealy
A new paper-like battery electrode made from silicon oxycarbide glass and graphene is able to operate at the low temperatures found in space.
5 April 2016
Scientists have used computer-based calculations to show that two dimensional boron is a low-temperature superconductor.
5 April 2016
Exposure to light helps fabrics with embedded nanostructures to clean themselves.
5 April 2016Laurie Donaldson