A lightweight sunshield has been developed to protect the mirrors and instruments aboard the James Webb Space Telescope from solar radiation.
29 June 2016
Scientists have made ultra-thin solar cells from gallium arsenide that are flexible enough to wrap around the average pencil.
24 June 2016
Novel combinatorial libraries of nanoparticles can allow the rapid screening of millions of different nanoparticles for specific properties.
24 June 2016
By using novel branched ligands, scientists have produced perovskite nanocrystals with greatly improved stability and uniform particle size.
22 June 2016
Scientists have developed a novel tri-layer metasurface solar absorber comprising a layer of amorphous carbon sandwiched between thin gold films.
20 June 2016
Scientists have created complex 2D and 3D structures, including a cube and a prism, made from DNA and nanoparticles.
20 June 2016
Read about the event at IMDEA Materials Institute, Madrid, Spain, which will honor Professor Subra Suresh.
17 June 2016
A method for embedding light-emitting nanoparticles into glass without losing any of their unique properties could lead to the development of smart glass.
15 June 2016
By incorporating tiny clusters of silver atoms into zeolite pores, scientists have produced a novel and efficient phosphorescent material.
13 June 2016
A highly flexible OLED with excellent efficiency uses graphene as a transparent electrode between layers of titanium dioxide and a conducting polymer.
10 June 2016