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Going Swimmingly: Biotemplates Breakthrough Paves Way for Cheaper Nanobots

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 30, 2017 — A feature of science fiction stories for decades, nanorobot potential ranges from cancer diagnosis and drug delivery to tissue repair and […]

Can the Motion of Checking Your Smartwatch Charge It?

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 10, 2017 — Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are small devices that convert movement into electricity, and might just be what bring us into an era […]

Turning Up the Heat for Perfect (Nano)Diamonds

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 14, 2017 — Quantum mechanics, the physics that governs nature at the atomic and subatomic scale, contains a host of new physical phenomena to […]

Degrading BPA with Visible Light and a New Hybrid Photocatalyst

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 21, 2015 — Over the course of the last half century, BPA has gone from miracle to menace. Its popularity soared after the 1950s, […]

Researchers Synthesize New Thin-Film Material for Use in Fuel Cells

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 10, 2015 — Researchers from Cornell University have synthesized a new thin-film catalyst for use in fuel cells. In a paper published March 10 […]

Novel Solid-State Nanomaterial Platform Enables Terahertz Photonics

WASHINGTON D.C., February 17, 2015 — Compact, sensitive and fast nanodetectors are considered to be somewhat of a “Holy Grail” sought by many researchers around the world. […]

Gift-Wrapped Gas Molecules

WASHINGTON D.C., December 30, 2014 – A group of scientists led by researchers at the Université de Versailles’ Institut Lavoisier in France has worked out how to […]

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 […]

“Bendy” LEDs

WASHINGTON D.C., Sept. 23, 2014 — “Bendy” light-emitting diode (LED) displays and solar cells crafted with inorganic compound semiconductor micro-rods are moving one step closer to reality, […]