New catalyst that can split water into hydrogen almost as good as platinum, but less costly

A ruthenium-based material works almost as efficient as platinum and likely shows the highest catalytic performance without being affected by the pH of the water.

Is a stretchable smart tablet in our future?

Engineering researchers have developed the first stretchable integrated circuit that is made entirely using an inkjet printer, raising the possibility of inexpensive mass production of smart fabric.

Graphene from soybeans

A new production technology grows graphene film in ambient air with a natural precursor, making its production faster and simpler.

Graphene interface engineering for large area, high efficiency solar cells

Researchers are using graphene and related materials to engineer the interfaces between solar cell layers.

Metal-organic frameworks used as looms

To produce cloths from monomolecular threads, scientists used SURMOFs, i.e. surface-mounted metal-organic frameworks.

Interface between insulators enables information transport by spin

Researchers have demonstrated the transport of spin information at room temperature in a remarkable material system.

An old rock teaches us new tricks to fabricate van der Waals heterostructures

Scientists have found out that franckeite, a mineral belonging to the sulfosalts family, shows a natural crystal structure similar to the manmade van der Waals heterostructures.