Uncompromising on organic solar cells

Researchers developed a semi-transparent organic solar cell that achieves better efficiency and transparency than existing ones.

Detecting mercury with gold nanorods

Individual gold nanorods could be used to develop smaller, portable mercury sensors that test for the highly toxic metal in air, soil and water.

MRI-powered mini-robots could offer targeted treatment (w/video)

Researchers are developing control algorithms, imaging technology, ultrafast computational methods and human-machine immersion methods to harness the force from a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner to both image and steer millimeter-sized robots through the body.

Understanding what's happening inside liquid droplets (w/video)

For most people, the drip, drip, drip of a leaking faucet would be an annoyance. But for some scientists, what happens inside droplets is the stuff of serious science.

Magnetic fields at the crossroads

Understanding the motion of vortex domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires.

Reducing conducting thin film surface roughness for electronics

In a significant advance, particularly within the microelectronics realm, engineers have established electrical surface treatment of conducting thin films as a physical processing method to reduce surface roughness.

Hexagonal boron nitride enables the fabrication of 2-dimensional electronic memories

Researchers report the synthesis of resistive random access memories made of graphene electrodes and multilayer hexagonal boron nitride as dielectric. The findings pave the way towards the development of advanced two-dimensional electronic memories.

Towards mastering terahertz waves with graphene

Scientists have perfected a technique based on the usage of graphene, that allows for terahertz waves to be controlled accurately, paving the way for numerous applications.