Technological breakthrough for cheaper lighting and flexible solar cells

EU project TREASORES finishes successfully.

Researchers invent fleet and fast test for nanomanufacturing quality control

Manufacturers may soon have a speedy and nondestructive way to test a wide array of materials under real-world conditions, thanks to an advance that researchers have made in roll-to-roll measurements.

Building a better mouse trap, from the atoms up

Machine learning makes materials design into a science.

Graphene slides smoothly across gold

Since it produces almost no friction at all, graphene could drastically reduce energy loss in machines when used as a coating.

Electricity can flow through graphene at high frequencies without energy loss

Electrical signals transmitted at high frequencies lose none of their energy when passed through graphene, a new study shows.

Nanoscale rotor and gripper push DNA origami to new limits

Scientists have built two new nanoscale machines with moving parts, using DNA as a programmable, self-assembling construction material.

'Bending current' opens up the way for a new type of magnetic memory

Physicists describe energy-efficient MRAM.

Pushing boundaries

Studies of critical reactions at interfaces between solids and liquids provide insights into systems spanning the fields of Atmospheric Aerosol Systems, Biosystem Dynamics and Design, Energy Materials and Processes, and Terrestrial and Subsurface Ecosystems.

Heat from the environment can help quantum annealers solve certain problems

Scientists have recently demonstrated that heat energy coming in from the outside can help a quantum annealer get better solutions for a certain type of problem.