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29 September 2016Laurie Winkless
Researchers have managed to create a new room-temperature multiferroic by combining two non-multiferroic materials.
29 September 2016
Roll-process technology that transfer and packages large-scale integrated circuits
29 September 2016Laurie Donaldson
Nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon thin film acts as a high capacity, binder-free supercapacitor
28 September 2016David Bradley
Using artificial intelligence, chemists have computed the characteristics of about two million crystals made up of four chemical elements.
27 September 2016
A combination of theory and experiment has gone some way to revealing the ingredients required for high-temperature superconductivity.
27 September 2016
Using cellulose and polymers, scientists have developed a new strategy for crafting nanorods from a wide range of precursor materials.
20 September 2016
Scientists have synthesized nanometer-sized cage molecules that can be used to transport charge in proton exchange membranes.
19 September 2016
Scientists have discovered an inorganic semiconductor with a double helix structure that makes it highly flexible.
16 September 2016
For the first time, scientists have used a scanning transmission electron microscope to directly write tiny patterns in metallic ‘ink’.
15 September 2016
Scientists have developed a versatile method for patterning the structure of ‘nanowires’ made from amyloid peptides.
15 September 2016
A novel polyphenyline membrane for fuel cells operates over a wide temperature range and lasts three times longer than existing membranes.
13 September 2016
Cutting fuel cell costs with noble aerogels.
12 September 2016David Bradley
Scientists have developed a responsive, hybrid material, powered by its own chemical reactions, that can recognize simple patterns.
9 September 2016
The thermal conductivity of buckyball-containing superatom crystals is directly related to the rotational disorder within those structures.
9 September 2016
A pulsed-laser process can improve the electrical conductivity of inkjet-printed graphene without damaging the surfaces on which it is printed.
8 September 2016
Flexible smart windows from niobium oxides (Image: Cockrell School of Engineering
7 September 2016David Bradley
Using electron microscopy, scientists have uncovered the first atomic scale evidence for strain-induced ferroelectricity in a layered oxide.
6 September 2016
Silicon nanoparticles based devices that can be controlled for light manipulation.
5 September 2016Laurie Donaldson
Scientists have discovered that electron anions can reduce the temperature at which mayenite changes from a crystal to a glass.
2 September 2016