Scientists create 'Swiss army knife' for electron beams

Pocket accelerator combines four functions in one device.

Researchers develop nanoparticle films for high-density data storage

New holographic data storage medium could enable wearable technology that captures and stores detailed 3-D images.

New research shows how paper-cutting can make ultra strong, stretchable electronics

In new work, a research team describes how kirigami has inspired its efforts to build malleable electronic circuits.

A new metasurface model shows potential to control acoustic wave reflection

Researchers show how a thin, elastic metasurface could reflect an incoming soundwave?s fundamental frequency as its second harmonic. This new material concept could enhance noise control in performances, city soundscapes and submarines.

High-speed and on-silicon-chip graphene blackbody emitters

Integrated light emitters for optical communications.

Stretchable, twistable wires for wearable electronics

Researchers have created new conductive 'felt' that can be easily patterned onto fabrics to create flexible wires. The felt, composed of silver-coated copper nanowires and silicon rubber, carries electricity even when bent, stretched and twisted, over and over again.

Non-toxic filamentous virus helps quickly dissipate heat generated by electronic devices

Scientists have discovered that the film constructed by assembling a nontoxic filamentous virus functions as a heat dissipation material, and that can be simply prepared by drying the virus aqueous solution at room temperature. This discovery is expected to elucidate the mechanism of new heat transport in electronics.

Finding order in disorder demonstrates a new state of matter

'Spindoctors' note that topological order, associated with quantum mechanics, also applies to classical material called artificial spin ice.

From the quantum level to the car battery

By combining multi-scale models, data analysis and machine learning, it is possible to develop improved materials much more quickly.