Researchers develop fire-retardant coating featuring renewable nanocellulose materials

Nanocellulose coating could reduce the flammability of the polyurethane foam used in a variety of household furniture.

Laser-induced graphene gets tough, with help

Researchers combine conductive foam with other materials for capable new composites.

'Magnetic graphene' switches between insulator and conductor

Researchers have found that certain ultra-thin magnetic materials can switch from insulator to conductor under high pressure, a phenomenon that could be used in the development of next-generation electronics and memory storage devices.

What does it take to make a better battery?

Researchers are working to solve one of technology?s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green revolution.

Using artificial intelligence to engineer materials' properties

New system of 'strain engineering' can change a material?s optical, electrical, and thermal properties.

Hyperbolic metamaterials enable nanoscale 'fingerprinting'

Researchers use a narrow light beam in hyperbolic metamaterials to 'fingerprint' and obtain spatial and material information about nanometer-scale objects -- allowing identification without complete images.

Nanotechnology enables engineers to weld previously un-weldable aluminum alloy

Super-strong but lightweight, AA 7075 now could be more widely used in automobiles and other manufacturing thanks to nanotechnology research.

Nano drops a million times smaller than a teardrop explodes 19th century theory

New theory and understanding of how liquid nano-jets breakup into droplets.

At the rim: Mods to nanotubes help filter salt from seawater

The ability of carbon nanotubes to filter sodium while still allowing water to pass through can depend on many factors, including their diameters and the interactions of electrically charged atoms on their rims.

Laser snapshots of fullerenes show how they transform in intense infrared light

Physicists have irradiated buckyballs with infrared femtosecond laser pulses. Under the influence of the intense light the form of the macromolecules was changed from round to elongated.

Scientists develop AI to predict and engineer material properties

Scientists have developed a machine learning approach that can predict changes to the properties of materials from straining the material.

Finding chemicals inside a cell

Chemical and topographical single-cell imaging at nanoscale resolution by near-field desorption mass spectrometry.

Phase transition dynamics in two-dimensional materials

Scientists have discovered the mechanism involved when transition metal dichalcogenides on metallic substrates transform from the semiconducting 1H-phase to the quasi-metallic 1T'-phase.