ETH researchers have developed a comprehensive model to explain how electrons flow inside new types of solar cells made of tiny crystals.
29 January 2015
Researchers hope that their properties might be altered to permit nanodiamonds to be used as catalysts for generating hydrogen from sunlight.
29 January 2015
The Physics Innovation Award is a competition inviting you to come up with original innovative ideas to improve the publishing experience.
28 January 2015Zara Preston
How to enhance light emission and capture light from metamaterials embedded with light emitting nanocrystals.
28 January 2015
Scientists have come up with a way of creating sensors which could allow machines to smell more accurately than humans.
28 January 2015
Princeton University researchers have built a rice grain-sized laser powered by single electrons.
27 January 2015
University of British Columbia physicists have detected 'charge ordering' in electron-doped cuprate superconductors for the first time.
27 January 2015
Some of the most influential articles published in Acta Biomaterialia over the past 10 years can be found here.
27 January 2015Baptiste Gault
Physicists have detected 'charge ordering' in electron-doped cuprate superconductors for the first time.
26 January 2015
Revealing hidden structures in domain interfaces in organic semiconductors.
23 January 2015Laurie Donaldson
Rice University scientists advanced their recent development of laser-induced graphene (LIG) by producing and testing stacked.
23 January 2015
Outstanding contributions recognized at the Materials Today Asia conference.
22 January 2015Stewart Bland
Materials engineers have made a significant leap toward creating higher-performance electronics with improved battery life.
22 January 2015
Oxygen is needed in tissue repair so researchers have come up with a novel way to supply regrowing tissue with oxygen using algae-impregnated biomaterials.
21 January 2015Cordelia Sealy
Carbon nanotubes could spark new life into damaged nerves.
20 January 2015Cordelia Sealy
Tandem perovskite-semiconductor promise for solar energy efficiency boost.
20 January 2015David Bradley
Researchers measured the time electrons needed to travel through a film consisting of a few layers a of magnesium atoms.
15 January 2015
Making cement is a centuries-old art that has yet to be perfected, according to researchers at Rice University who believe it can be still more efficient.
15 January 2015
A team of researchers recently report on the use of a simple and effective approach to overcome this limitation using amphiphiles.
14 January 2015Baptiste Gault
Although blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs): how do they actually work?
14 January 2015Laurie Donaldson
Computational Materials Science supports the move towards Open Data with Data in Brief.
14 January 2015
We are very pleased to solicit nominations for the Elsevier Van de Hulst Light-Scattering Award.
13 January 2015Zara Preston
Introducing a compound into cancer cells to guide surgery.
13 January 2015Laurie Donaldson
Building nanotechnology using DNA origami
13 January 2015David Bradley
Self-folding 3D origami comes to fruition.
12 January 2015Nina Notman
Graphene oxide stability in water is down to presence of aluminum impurity.
12 January 2015David Bradley
Special Issue on graphene from the journal, Carbon.
9 January 2015Zara Preston
The Editorial Board of Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Section A (NIMA) is currently accepting nominations for the Kai Siegbahn Prize.
9 January 2015Zara Preston
The best material to keep carbon dioxide from natural gas wells from fouling the atmosphere may be a derivative of asphalt.
8 January 2015
Resilience to extreme conditions by the most transparent, lightweight and flexible material for conducting electricity.
8 January 2015
Dr Subhash Mahajan, Coordinating Editor of Acta Materialia, will receive the prestigious Institute of Metals/Robert Franklin Mehl Award.
8 January 2015Baptiste Gault
Mildred Dresselhaus, member of Carbon’s Honary Advisory Board was awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom.
8 January 2015Zara Preston
New Editor-in-Chief announced for Diamond and Related Materials
8 January 2015
The 2014 Materials Today Cover Competition winners have been revealed...
7 January 2015Zara Preston
An international team of researchers has developed a drug delivery technique that utilizes graphene strips as “flying carpets”.
6 January 2015
A team of engineers has developed a new acousto-optic device that can shape and steer beams of light at speeds never before achieved.
6 January 2015
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5 January 2015Zara Preston
Carbon black-PTFE Janus microspheres have been produced using microfluidics.
5 January 2015Laurie Winkless
A flexible, self-powered piezoelectric motion sensor for use by Alzheimer’s patients has been developed by Korean researchers.
5 January 2015Laurie Winkless