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New method at MIT produces particles that can glow with color-coded light and be manipulated with magnets.
Read more about Nanoparticles Get a Magnetic Handle
MIT theorists find a new way to improve efficiency of solar cells by overcoming exciton “traps.”
Read more about Magnetic Fields Make the Excitons Go ’Round
Washington State University researchers have developed a new catalyst that could lead to making biofuels cheaply and more efficiently.
Read more about New Catalyst Could Improve Biofuels Production
Researchers at MIT find new mechanism of photoconduction could lead to next-generation excitonic devices.
Read more about Unconventional Photoconduction in an Atomically Thin Semiconductor
Researchers at The City College of New York led by chemist Stephen O’Brien have discovered new complex oxides that exhibit both magnetic and ferroelectric properties.
Read more about Oxides Discovered by CCNY Team Could Advance Memory Devices
Penn State University researchers create super-strong, super-thin diamond nanothreads.
Read more about Sparkling Threads With Exceptional Properties
Researchers identified a new polymer—a type of large molecule that forms plastics and other familiar materials—that improved the efficiency of solar cells.
Read more about UChicago-Argonne National Lab Team Improves Solar-cell Efficiency
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a way to create a highly sensitive chemical sensor based on the crystalline flaws in graphene sheets.
Read more about Graphene Flaws Key to Creating Hypersensitive ‘Electronic Nose’
University of Vermont researchers look at the relationship between joint geometry and the risk of knee injury.
Read more about Angles and Athletes
Research led by University of Arizona scientists, shows that a single species of microbe, discovered only recently, is an unexpected key player in climate change.
Read more about Newly Discovered Microbe Is Key in Climate Change
Columbia Engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a unique electric generator, which could open the door to mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, extremely light, and very bendable and stretchable.
Read more about Researchers Develop World’s Thinnest Electric Generator
Technology could provide a way to deliver probes or drugs to cell structures without outside guidance.
Read more about Microscopic “Walkers” Find Their Way Across Cell Surfaces
