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Move Aside Carbon: Boron Nitride-Reinforced Materials Are Even Stronger

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 22, 2015 – Carbon nanotubes are legendary in their strength — at least 30 times stronger than bullet-stopping Kevlar by some estimates. When mixed […]

Isolating Water’s Impact on Vibrations within DNA

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 14, 2015 — In a biological system, the ratio of water-to-non-water molecules, known as the hydration level, influences both the arrangement of biomolecules and […]

Building blocks for GaN power switches

WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 15, 2015 – A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride […]

A New Theory Describes Ice’s Slippery Behavior

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 8, 2015 – Winter is coming, promising the usual bouts of frozen precipitation for northern locations. The slickness of snow and ice is a […]

Exploring the limits for high-performance LEDs and solar cells

Washington, D.C., Dec. 2, 2015 – Hybrid optoelectronic devices based on blends of hard and soft semiconductors can combine the properties of the two material types, opening […]

Climate Macroscope: New Software for Finding Tipping Points and Critical Network Structures

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 17, 2015 – If you wanted to know whether shifts in the African climate during Paleolithic times correlated with the appearance and disappearance of […]

Ultra-thin, tunable, broadband microwave absorber may advance radar cloaking

Washington, D.C., Nov. 10, 2015 – Microwave absorbers are a kind of material that can effectively absorb incident microwave energy to make objects invisible to radar; therefore […]

New Derivation of Pi Links Quantum Physics and Pure Math

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 10, 2015 – In 1655 the English mathematician John Wallis published a book in which he derived a formula for pi as the product […]

Forming glass shapes: Lowering the ‘softening temperature’ via electric field

Washington, D.C., Nov. 3, 2015 – On a serendipitous occasion, while attending a conference and listening to Rishi Raj, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University […]