Researchers have developed new organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials that don't contain lead and have a much improved stability.
21 November 2019
Perovskite materials for use in next generation solar cells and flexible LEDs can be more efficient when their chemical compositions are less ordered.
19 November 2019
By applying an intermittent electrical field, researchers have managed to get blue-phase liquid crystals to adopt novel structures with novel properties.
18 November 2019
By replacing some of the lead in perovskites with indium, scientists have quashed the defects in perovskite solar cells and enhanced their stability.
15 November 2019
Exposing the cathode in a lithium-ion battery to a beam of concentrated light can lower the charging time by a remarkable factor of two or more.
13 November 2019
By wetting porous polymer coatings with alcohol, researchers have come up with an inexpensive and scalable way to control light and heat in buildings.
6 November 2019
A subtle interaction between single atomic defects in the 2D material tungsten diselenide and mechanical strain causes it to emit quantum light.
30 October 2019
Researchers have developed silk materials that can wrinkle into highly detailed patterns, which can be erased by flooding the silk surface with vapor.
23 October 2019
novel electroluminescent device uses flexible, electrically conductive Ag-coated nylon fibers embedded in a PDMS + ZnS composite as electrodes
15 October 2019Cordelia Sealy
Engineers have harnessed machine learning to design dielectric metamaterials that absorb and emit specific frequencies of terahertz radiation.
15 October 2019
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