Nanotechnology enables powerful and portable sterilization equipment

Engineers are developing the foil based LEDs for portable ultraviolet (UV) lights that can be used to purify drinking water and sterilize medical equipment.

Implantable nanoparticle catalyst against cancer

Biocompatible heterogeneous copper catalyst for click chemistry in living organisms.

Researchers develop scalable, electrically driven photon sources to drive quantum technologies

Researchers have made quantum dot light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that can produce entangled photons (whose actions are linked), theoretically enabling their use to encode information in quantum computing.

A new way to image solar cells in 3-D (w/video)

Novel method could help scientists learn new ways to boost photovoltaic efficiency.

Researchers create living bio-hybrid system

Interdisciplinary approach makes linking biological materials and electronic devices possible.

Controlling electrons in time and space

Sharp metal needles can be used to emit electrons; a quantum effect opens up new possibilities of controlling electron emission with extremely high accuracy.

New way to make low-cost perovskite solar cell technology

Researchers have found a new way to fabricate high efficiency semi-transparent perovskite solar cells in a breakthrough that could lead to more efficient and cheaper solar electricity.

Experiment designed to test 'smart' antibacterial surfaces in space

The Matiss experiment will investigate antibacterial properties of new materials in a zero-gravity environment to see if they can improve and simplify cleaning inside spacecraft.

Wearable terahertz scanning device made with carbon nanotube detector elements

Researchers have developed a portable and wearable terahertz scanning device made using arrays of carbon nanotubes, for non-invasive inspection of three-dimensional objects without requiring bulky peripheral optical components.

Researchers report new thermoelectric material with high power factors

Material created using very high heat yielded record power output density.

Carbon nanotubes couple light and matter

Scientists work on the basics of new light sources from organic semiconductors.