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“Technion researchers have developed an innovative method for increasing the efficiency of electro-optical devices by increasing the interaction between light and matter. In findings published in Advanced Materials, the researchers report that they successfully implemented the method to produce a …
“The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward after researchers successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen by altering the photosynthetic machinery in plants. This could be a great platform for developing solar …
“Carnegie Mellon University’s Sheng Shen has created a solder-like material called supersolder, with twice the thermal conductivity of conventional solders and a compliance higher by two to three orders of magnitude. In electronics, solder is used to connect two …
“By hacking a domestic knitting machine, a software engineer advanced modern knitting and made a massive equatorial star map in tapestry form. Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer spent years hacking and programming a 1980s domestic knitting machine for fun. This …
“MIT researchers develop inexpensive way to perform full lifecycle analysis of design choices as buildings are being planned. Typically, when architects or engineers design a new building, it’s only at the end of the process — if ever — that a …
“Blending hydrogels with gold nanoparticles can produce a transistor for extra-sensitive sensors Hydrogels are essentially a gel in which the liquid component is water. They have been shown to act as a kind of power source or even as kind …
“A novel possibility of manipulating cellular functions A team of researchers have discovered that terahertz (THz) wave irradiation activates the filamentation of actin protein. Drs. Shota Yamazaki and Masahiko Harata (Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University); Dr. Yuichi Ogawa …
News The swing doctors: U-M physicist cracks code on material that works as both conductor, insulator
“Quantum materials are a type of odd substance that could be many times more efficient at conducting electricity through our iPhones than the commonly used conductor silicon—if only physicists can crack how the stuff works. A University of Michigan …
“Better understanding of the wetting characteristics of phosphorene could pave the way for new applications in biological engineering A technique for investigating the wetting behavior of water on phosphorene — the single layer form of black phosphorus — has been developed by …
“Kiel layered crystals are used worldwide as a basis for exploring the nano-cosmos The properties of materials are determined by their atomic structure. If atoms and electrons change their positions, then the characteristics of a material also change. The complex …