A new technique known as ion soft-landing can produce battery electrodes with significantly better electrical capacity and long-term stability.
28 April 2016
Salt crystals can act as a template for the growth of thin sheets of conductive metal oxides that are highly effective at storing energy.
28 April 2016
Scientists have invented a metal nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times.
27 April 2016
View the live 2016 Elsevier Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday April 27th, 2016.
26 April 2016
Scientists have developed a quick and efficient method for exfoliating atomically-thin flakes of phosphorene from black phosphorous.
26 April 2016
A novel metamaterial made of nanoscale structures of gold and magnesium fluoride can radiate heat at specific wavelengths and in specific directions.
26 April 2016
Canadian researchers have found that some functionalised nanomaterials can affect the hatching and early development of fish embryos.
25 April 2016Laurie Winkless
Using an ultrafast electron microscope, researchers have recorded the first-ever videos showing how heat moves through nanoscale materials.
25 April 2016
View details about the Fifth International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials, taking place in March 2017.
22 April 2016
Explore the Special Issue on The Effects of Confinement on Polymeric Thermal Transitions and Nanostructuring, here.
22 April 2016
Scientists have discovered that the strong force-field emitted by a Tesla coil can cause carbon nanotubes to self-assemble into long wires.
22 April 2016
Ultra-thin ferroelectric films based on hafnium oxide could produce non-volatile memory elements called ferroelectric tunnel junctions.
22 April 2016
Using vacuum filtration to produce controllable carbon nanotubes films.
20 April 2016Laurie Donaldson
A combined electrolyte and separator containing hexagonal boron nitride can allow lithium-ion batteries to work at high temperatures.
14 April 2016
Researchers have created a stretchable photodetector with enhanced, strain-tunable photoresponsivity by engineering 2D graphene into 3D structures.
12 April 2016
By combining graphene with molecules capable of altering their structure on exposure to light, scientists have created light-responsive molecular switches.
11 April 2016
A carbon nanotube thin film has the potential to act as a thermoelectric material that captures and uses waste heat to generate electricity.
8 April 2016
Wrinkled and crumpled graphene sheets offer improved properties.
8 April 2016Laurie Donaldson
Scientists have developed a simple filtration process for creating flexible, wafer-scale films of highly aligned and closely-packed carbon nanotubes.
6 April 2016
Scientists have detected a new state of matter known as a quantum spin liquid in the 2D material ruthenium chloride.
6 April 2016
Scientists have improved the performance of a solid battery electrolyte through chemical modification and pulverization.
6 April 2016
Rediscovered synthesis methods for transition metal dichalcogenides could enable future optical, electronic, and mechanical devices.
6 April 2016Cordelia Sealy
A new paper-like battery electrode made from silicon oxycarbide glass and graphene is able to operate at the low temperatures found in space.
5 April 2016
Scientists have used computer-based calculations to show that two dimensional boron is a low-temperature superconductor.
5 April 2016
Exposure to light helps fabrics with embedded nanostructures to clean themselves.
5 April 2016Laurie Donaldson
New moldable thermoplastic polymer leads to renewable thermoplastics.
4 April 2016Laurie Donaldson