Fish ‘Biowaste’ Converted to Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 6, 2016 — Large quantities of fish are consumed in India on a daily basis, which generates a huge amount of fish “biowaste” materials. […]
Water and Light ‘Flow’ Inspire Ultrasensitive Optical Microfiber Coupler Sensor
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 6, 2016 — When a river narrows or two rivers run into each other and merge, the water flow’s speed increases and it becomes […]
Shrinking the Inside of an Explosion
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 30, 2016 — Testing explosions is epic science. The most detailed studies of explosive charges have been conducted at national laboratories using a gun […]
Hexagonal Boron Nitride Semiconductors Enable Cost-Effective Detection of Neutron Signals
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 16, 2016 — One of the most critical issues the United States faces today is preventing terrorists from smuggling nuclear weapons into its ports. […]
Researchers Immobilize Underwater Bubbles
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 9, 2016 — Controlling bubbles is a difficult process and one that many of us experienced in a simplistic form as young children wielding […]
Tailored AFM Probes Created via 3-D Direct Laser Writing
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 8, 2016 — Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a technique that allows researchers to analyze surfaces at the atomic scale, and it’s based on […]
Swapping Substrates Improves Edges of Graphene Nanoribbons
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 1, 2016 — It is now feasible to make a prized material for spintronic devices and semiconductors — monolayer graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges. […]
New Metamaterials Can Change Properties with a Flick of a Light-Switch
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 2, 2016 — Invisibility cloaks have less to do with magic than with metamaterials. These human-engineered materials have properties that don’t occur in nature, […]
Minimalist swimming microrobots
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 19, 2016 — When scaling down robots to the micrometer scale for tiny tasks such as incising tissue and puncturing retinal veins, minimalism is […]