By combining plasmonics and optical microresonators, researchers have created a new optical amplifier (or laser) design.
28 August 2014
Researchers have created a CMOS-compatible, biomimetic color photodetector that directly responds to red, green and blue light, like a human eye.
27 August 2014
Researchers have demonstrated that electron microscopy can be used to reveal a three-dimensional structure in which all gold atoms are observed.
27 August 2014
The awardees selected from papers published in 2013 in the Acta Journals: Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, and Acta Biomaterialia are...
26 August 2014Subhash Mahajan
Organolead perovskites made from recycled lead for photovoltaics.
21 August 2014David Bradley
Researchers have devised a quick way to test the structural materials used to build nuclear reactors, details reported in the journal Scripta Materialia.
20 August 2014David Bradley
Scientists have turned the study of bacterial nanowires on its head, discovering that the key features in question are not pili, as previously believed.
20 August 2014
Surprising locked charge polarizations that impede performance.
19 August 2014
Beyond the invisibility cloak
19 August 2014
18 August 2014Laurie Donaldson
Singapore-based journal records its highest impact factor of 18.432.
15 August 2014
The findings open a doorway on a chemical galaxy containing vast numbers of new molecules for making drugs, plastics and unprecedented smart materials.
15 August 2014
Physicists have found a way to make atomic-force microscope probes 20 times more capable of detecting forces as small as the weight of an individual virus.
15 August 2014
A catalyst made from a foamy form of copper has vastly different electrochemical properties from catalysts made with smooth copper.
14 August 2014
Researchers describe their investigations of the fundamental optical properties of a new class of semiconducting materials.
13 August 2014
Bioengineers have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions similar to tissue in the rat brain.
13 August 2014
Using heat treatment to convert cigarette filters into a supercapacitor material for energy storage.
12 August 2014Laurie Donaldson
Nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond film.
12 August 2014Nina Notman
UCL scientists have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons.
11 August 2014
A multi-institutional team has resolved a long-unanswered question about how two of the world’s most common substances interact.
11 August 2014
An outline of Marilyn Monroe's iconic face appeared on the clear, plastic film when a researcher fogs it with her breath.
7 August 2014
Notable increases for Elsevier's materials science journals.
7 August 2014Zara Preston
MIT engineers have fabricated a new elastic material coated with microscopic, hairlike structures that tilt in response to a magnetic field.
6 August 2014
Scientists have managed to combine two semiconductor materials, consisting of only three atomic layers each.
6 August 2014
Researchers at MIT have found a way to study bonding failures directly, revealing the crucial role of moisture in setting the stage for failure.
5 August 2014
Researchers used a horse model to undertake an analysis of all the proteins and protein fragments present in healthy and injured tendons.
5 August 2014
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1 August 2014Zara Preston
An extremely porous and lightweight material, known as an aerogel, has been created from partially unrolled multiwalled carbon nanotubes.
1 August 2014Cordelia Sealy