Improved water splitting advances renewable energy conversion

Researchers have found a way to more efficiently create hydrogen from water -- an important key in making renewable energy production and storage viable.

Controlling ultrasound with 3D printed carbon nanotube coated devices

A new device harnesses ultrasound for surgery and manipulating small objects like particles and biological cells.

Supersonic phenomena, the key to extremely low heat loss nanoelectronics

Supersonic solitary waves in nano-electronics crystals show potentials for electric charge or matter transport and energy storage with extremely low heat dissipation.

Nanoscale image reveals new details about formation of marine shells

Oceanographers have used modern tools to provide an atomic-scale look at how that shell first forms.

A complete waste of energy

Engineers develop process for electronic devices that stops wasteful power leakage.

How often do quantum systems violate the second law of thermodynamics?

In two papers, published this week, scientists determined a more precise version of a basic law of physics - which says that disorder tends to increase with time unless acted on by an outside force - and applied it to the smallest quantum systems.

Pioneering germ trap technology moves forward with first commercial application

Facemasks incorporating an innovative new technology will be able to comprehensively trap and kill over 99 percent of all flu viruses.

Towards better metallic glasses

Researchers have used state-of-the-art computer simulation to test a theory from the 1950s that when atoms organise themselves into 3D pentagons they supress crystallisation.

Counterintuitive metamaterial may enable heat-resistant circuit boards (w/video)

Engineers have manufactured tiny, star-shaped structures out of interconnected beams, or trusses. The structures, each about the size of a sugar cube, quickly shrink when heated to about 282 degrees C.

Electric current at record speed

By using ultrafast laser flashes, scientists have generated the fastest electric current that has ever been measured inside a solid material.