Researchers uncover new insights about polymer nanoparticles

The team's findings include properties such as surface mobility, glass transition temperature and elastic modulus.

Study opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials

Cost-effective method produces semiconducting films from materials that outperform silicon.

Copper ions flow like liquid through crystalline structures

Atomic insights into superionic crystals could lead to safer, more efficient rechargeable batteries.

Engineers build smallest integrated Kerr frequency comb generator

Low-power chip unites lasers and frequency combs for the first time and can be powered by an AAA battery, opening the door to portable devices for a wide range of applications from spectroscopy to optical communications to LIDAR.

A MOF rack for ammonia

Metal?organic framework as a robust material for the uptake and storage of ammonia at densities that come close to that of the liquefied gas.

Graphene controls surface magnetism at room temperature

Researchers found that the proximity effects of graphene on a magnetic semiconducting substrate affect the substrate's magnetism down to several layers below the surface.

Novel method determines catalytic active sites using carbon nanotubes

Catalytic research has developed a new and more definitive way to determine the active site in a complex catalyst.