Improving mid-infrared imaging and sensing

Artificial optical materials could allow cheaper, flatter, more efficient detectors for night vision and other uses.

Scientists verify a way of how to improve resolution of most powerful microscopes

The resolution and intensity of powerful nanoscopes could be enhanced by over 30% via non-spherical particle lenses.

New all-inorganic perovskite solar cells tackle key challenges in solar cell technology: efficiency, stability, and cost

Scientists are using a new perovskite material that is stable, efficient and relatively cheap to produce, paving the way for their use in the solar cells of tomorrow.

A new way to produce hydrogen with nanoparticles

The ground-breaking new research centres on the use of a revolutionary photo-electrode made from nanoparticles of the elements lanthanum, iron and oxygen.

Scientists create tiny, super-thin sheets of flowing water that shimmer like soap bubbles

The liquid sheets - less than 100 water molecules thick - will let researchers probe chemical, physical and biological processes, and even the nature of water itself, in a way they could never do before.