A novel transparent material improves the performance of solar cells by shunting away heat while still letting through visible light.
25 September 2015
A new ultra-thin invisibility ‘skin’ cloak can conform to the shape of an object and conceal it from detection with visible light.
24 September 2015
new light-sensitive, plant–human hybrid protein molecule could help memory
24 September 2015Laurie Donaldson
For the first time, researchers have imaged how light moves inside an exotic class of matter known as hyperbolic materials.
22 September 2015
High-temperature 3D printing of transparent glass objects now possible.
18 September 2015David Bradley
A new 'electron camera' shows how individual atoms move to form wrinkles in a single layer of molecules.
16 September 2015
A novel material is able to split water by using gold nanoparticles to produce hot electrons.
14 September 2015
A new way to study nanoparticles one at a time has revealed that seemingly identical particles can have very different properties.
10 September 2015
A newly developed polymer material can emit light of different colors in response to a wide variety of external conditions.
9 September 2015
An innovative method for getting nanoparticles to self-assemble utilizes the medium in which the particles are suspended.
7 September 2015
4 September 2015Zara Preston
By finding a way to get metal-organic frameworks to melt, scientists have developed a novel type of glass.
3 September 2015