Scientists develop way to upsize nanostructures into light, flexible 3-D printed materials

Scientists describe a new process to create lightweight, strong and super elastic 3-D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability, a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3-D architectures.

A battery inspired by vitamins

Researchers have identified a whole new class of high-performing organic molecules, inspired by vitamin B2, that can safely store electricity from intermittent energy sources like solar and wind power in large batteries.

Graphene photodetectors: Thinking outside the 2-D box

Researchers demonstrate a novel way to detect low-energy photons using vertical heterostructures made by stacking graphene and other 2D semiconducting materials.

Tiny transformers: Chemists create microscopic and malleable building blocks

Taking a page from Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels', a team of scientists has created malleable and microscopic self-assembling particles that can serve as the next generation of building blocks in the creation of synthetic materials.

Researchers invent 'smart' thread that collects diagnostic data when sutured into tissue

Advances could pave way for new generation of implantable and wearable diagnostics.

Chemical breakthrough in quantum computing

Researchers have made a conducting carbon material that they demonstrated could be used to perform quantum computing at room temperature, rather than near absolute zero.

A glimpse inside the atom

Using electron microscopes, it is possible to image individual atoms. Scientists have calculated how it is possible to look inside the atom to image individual electron orbitals.