A Duke research team has developed a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints.
16 December 2013
Researchers have found a catalyst that can quickly generate hydrogen from water using sunlight.
16 December 2013
A solar panel design made with a new ceramic material points the way to be cheaper, more efficient, and requiring less manufacturing time.
12 December 2013
Clemson University investigated an application allowing the human body to regenerate its own tissue.
12 December 2013
A team of scientists use a small amount of graphene oxide to improve carbon nanomaterials which promises to improve composite materials.
12 December 2013
The materials created by scientists start as flat slabs, but they morph into shapes that can be controlled by patterns written into their layers.
11 December 2013
A project where no fewer than twenty researchers from five universities worldwide have collaborated to prove that polymers can also be semimetals.
11 December 2013
Researchers of Technische Universität München have, for the first time, watched organic solar cells degrade in real time.
10 December 2013
Rice’s research group test for terahertz peaks in batches of pure metallic nanotubes known as “armchairs”.
10 December 2013
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have devised a novel way to realize electrical conductivity in metal-organic framework (MOF) materials.
9 December 2013
Researchers have combined cutting-edge experimental techniques and computer simulations to find out how water dissolves crystalline structures
6 December 2013
Researchers have added to a family of engineered, high-tech materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): the ability to conduct electricity.
6 December 2013
A research team used a unique optical metamaterial with a refractive index of zero to generate “phase mismatch–free nonlinear light”.
6 December 2013
Scientists at SISSA and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia are researching micro-robotics, a field that represents a challenge for the future.
6 December 2013
A research team at Berkeley Lab has discovered a way to introduce a recoverable strain into bismuth ferrite of up to 14-percent on the nanoscale.
5 December 2013
New solutions for utilising fiber-based material in the textile process attract global interest.
3 December 2013
Should we sacrifice part of our cultural heritage in order to achieve greater knowledge of the universe and the origin of humankind?
2 December 2013
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