Cooling Chips with the Flip of a Switch
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 5, 2016 – Turn on an electric field, and a standard electrocaloric material will eject heat to its surroundings as its internal dipoles reorder […]
Separating charge and discharge in measuring next-generation car batteries
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 29, 2016 — Lithium ion phosphate batteries are widely used to power the batteries in electric cars, but, unlike the amount of gas in […]
Breaking metamaterial symmetry with reflected light
Washington, D.C., April 5, 2016 — Optical activity—rotation of the polarization of light—is well known to occur within materials that differ from their mirror image. But what happens […]
Improving Benchtop Particle Accelerators
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2016 – The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which helped scientists discover the Higgs boson, is a huge instrument buried under the Swiss-French border. […]
Printing Nanomaterials with Plasma
Washington, D.C., March 22, 2016 — Printing has come a long way since the days of Johannes Gutenberg. Now, researchers have developed a new method that uses […]
Outsourcing crystal growth…to space
Washington, D.C., March 15, 2016 – Sometimes, distance can lend a new perspective to a problem. For Japanese researchers studying protein crystal growth, that distance was 250 […]
Detecting Radioactive Material from a Remote Distance
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2016 – In 2004 British national Dhiren Barot was arrested for conspiring to commit a public nuisance by the use of radioactive materials, […]
Sharkskin actually increases drag
Washington, D.C., March 15, 2016 — On an intuitive level, you’d expect a shark’s skin to reduce drag. After all, the purpose of sharkskin-inspired riblets — the […]
Scratching the Surface: Real-Time Monitoring of Surface Changes at the Atomic Level
WASHINGTON D.C., MARCH 15, 2016 – A team of researchers at Aix Marseille Université in Marseille, France led by Dr. Frédéric Leroy developed a technique that allows […]