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How the Physics of Champagne and Soda Bubbles May Help Address the World’s Future Energy Needs

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 18, 2014 — Uncork a bottle of champagne, and as the pressure of the liquid is abruptly removed, bubbles immediately form and then rapidly […]

Future Batteries: Lithium-Sulfur with a Graphene Wrapper

WASHINGTON D.C., December 16, 2014 — What do you get when you wrap a thin sheet of the “wonder material” graphene around a novel multifunctional sulfur electrode […]

Microwave Imaging of the Breast

WASHINGTON D.C., December 16, 2014 — Although currently available diagnostic screening systems for breast cancer like X-ray computed tomography (CT) and mammography are effective at detecting early […]

Nanoscale Resistors for Quantum Devices

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 9, 2014 – Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology have made new compact, high-value resistors for nanoscale quantum circuits. The resistors could speed […]

Field-emission plug-and-play solution for microwave electron guns

WASHINGTON D.C., November 18, 2014 – On a quest to design an alternative to the two complex approaches currently used to produce electrons within microwave electron guns, […]

New model clarifies photoexcited thin-film lattice dynamics

WASHINGTON D.C., November 18, 2014 — A research team from Germany developed an analytical model to describe the structural dynamics of photoexcited thin films and verified it […]

Space: The Final Frontier in Silicon Chemistry

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 11, 2014 – Silicon, which is one of the most common elements in the Earth’s crust, is also sprinkled abundantly throughout interstellar space. The […]

Disorder + Disorder = More Disorder?

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 4, 2014–If you took the junk from the back of your closet and combined it with the dirty laundry already on your floor, you […]

“Reverse Engineering” Materials for More Efficient Heating and Cooling

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 28, 2014 – If you’ve ever gone for a spin in a luxury car and felt your back being warmed or cooled by a […]