Researchers in China have demonstrated that nanowires of potassium niobate can act as UV-A photodetecting materials.
28 July 2014David Bradley
Researchers have used a microscope to study the relationship between the atomic geometry of a ribbon of graphene and its electrical properties.
25 July 2014
New laser reference device, traditional quartz “tuning fork” and coin for scale. Credit: Jiang Li/Caltech
23 July 2014Nina Notman
Polayacenes for improved solar cells.
22 July 2014David Bradley
The first experimental evidence for a boron buckyball has been obtained by chemists in the US and China.
17 July 2014Nina Notman
Thank you to all who have submitted. Winners to be announced at the Materials Today Asia conference in December.
16 July 2014Zara Preston
Researchers have developed a novel, tunable nanoantenna that paves the way for new kinds of plasmonic-based optomechanical systems.
16 July 2014
Scientists have demonstrated for the first time a photonic router – a quantum device based on a single atom.
15 July 2014
The fractional quantum Hall effect has been observed in bilayer graphene and shown to be tunable with an electric field.
10 July 2014David Bradley
A narrow enough ribbon will transform a conductor into a semiconductor.
9 July 2014
Skyrmions, subatomic quasiparticles that could play a key role in future spintronic technologies, have been observed for the first time using x-rays.
4 July 2014
Scientists at USC have developed a water-based organic battery that is long lasting, built from cheap, eco-friendly components.
4 July 2014
Researchers have developed a material which transports a magnetic field from one location to the other, similar to how a hose transports water.
3 July 2014
The best in materials science news from June 2014.
2 July 2014Zara Preston
After two years of effort, researchers have successfully measured the collective mass of ‘massless’ electrons in motion in graphene.
1 July 2014