By combining different materials, scientists have created highly configurable, nanoscale thermal light emitters for producing light from heat.
14 October 2019
Smart skin that responds to heat and sunlight
9 October 2019Laurie Donaldson
Researchers have found that doping indium oxide with molybdenum rather than tin doubles the conductivity of this transparent conductor.
8 October 2019
Coating chlorine-etched aluminum foil with carbon nanotubes created a material that is 10 times blacker than anything previously reported.
4 October 2019
Crystallographic dislocations can impact the ability of halide perovskites to hold energy derived from light in the form of excited electrons.
1 October 2019
Smallest ever spectrometer based on a single nanowire
1 October 2019Laurie Donaldson
Researchers have built and tested a photonic topological insulator with edges that can be redefined on the fly for routing photons around each other.
30 September 2019
Only around 1% of the surface area of the electrodes in organic solar cells needs to be electrically conductive for them to be fully effective.
27 September 2019
coating based on a metal-organic framework containing silver nanoparticles could reduce spread of bacterial contamination of surgical devices and surfaces
25 September 2019Cordelia Sealy
A novel nanocomposite comprising bacteria-generated tellurium nanorods embedded in a polymer makes an effective nonlinear optical material.
24 September 2019
Researchers report the first direct observation of transition carriers between different localization states within indium gallium nitride.
23 September 2019
20 September 2019Stewart Bland