Chemists create battery technology with off-the-charts charging capacity

Researchers have invented nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to a battery that would never require replacement.

New material combines useful typically incompatible properties

Most materials are capable of being only one thing at a time, but a team of engineers and physicists have created an entirely new material in which completely contradictory properties can coexist.

With simple process engineers fabricate fastest flexible silicon transistor

Researchers have fabricated a transistor that operates at a record 38 gigahertz, though their simulations show it could be capable of operating at a mind-boggling 110 gigahertz.

Researchers develop new semiconducting polymer for forthcoming flexible electronics

Researchers have developed a new n-type semiconducting polymer with superior electron mobility and oxidative stability.

Zip software can detect the quantum-classical boundary (w/video)

Compression of experimental data reveals the presence of quantum correlations.

Antimatter helps to unveil the secrets of liquid crystals

The chaos typical of liquid molecules, and the ordering characteristics of crystals. There are states of matter connecting such contradictory features: liquid crystals. Thanks to an innovative application of antimatter, it has been demonstrated that the structures formed by certain molecules of liquid crystals must in fact be different than previously thought.

Team builds first quantum cascade laser on silicon

Eliminates the need for an external light source for mid-infrared silicon photonic devices or photonic circuits.