Designing resilient 3D hierarchical metamaterial nanolattices (w/video)

Researchers have designed a new kind of hierarchical nanostructure that is stronger than previous lattice structures and bounces back with less damage after compression.

New, ultrathin optical devices shape light in exotic ways

Engineers have created flat devices capable of manipulating light in ways that are very difficult or impossible to achieve with conventional optical components.

Synthesizing nanodiamond-like carbon chains inside nanotubes

The inner space of carbon nanotubes can act as a template for the synthesis of nanodiamond-like carbon chains. As a team of scientists report, this templated polymerization approach paves the way for the design of novel one-dimensional nanomaterials.

Turning clothing into information displays

Researchers have demonstrated the world?s first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED display laminated into textiles.

Shift from electronics to spintronics opens up possibilities of faster data

Electronics is based on measuring the tiny electrical charge of electrons passing through electronic circuits. An alternative approach under development is spintronics, which instead relies not on electrons? charge, but on another of their fundamental quantum-mechanical properties: spin.

Scientists 'squeeze' light one particle at a time

A team of scientists have measured a bizarre effect in quantum physics, in which individual particles of light are said to have been 'squeezed' - an achievement which at least one textbook had written off as hopeless.

Water heals a bioplastic (w/video)

A drop of water self-heals a multiphase polymer derived from the genetic code of squid ring teeth, which may someday extend the life of medical implants, fiber-optic cables and other hard to repair in place objects, according to an international team of researchers.