Transformative Carbon XPrize technological advance in CO2 utilization

Rather than carbon taxes or extended debates on the international path to combat global warming, transforming the greenhouse carbon dioxide to a valuable product incentivizes its 'mining' and removal, either from industrial flue gas or directly from the air.

Plasmonic magnetism - Light may magnetise non-magnetic metals, propose physicists

Physicists have devised a method to turn a non-magnetic metal into a magnet using laser light.

Trandfer-printing technology for creating flexible sensors on topographic surfaces

A esearch team developed a transfer-printing technology that uses hydrogel and nano ink to easily create high-performance sensors on flexible substrates of diverse shapes and structures.

A good first step toward nontoxic solar cells

Engineers discover lead-free perovskite semiconductor for solar cells using data analytics, supercomputers.

Bioinspired nanoparticles remodel tumor stroma to enhance nanoparticle accessibility to cancer cells

Scientists propose a bioinspired lipoproteins (bLP)-mediated strategy, aiming at inducing photothermia to disrupt the tumor stromal microenvironments (TSM) barriers and augmenting the accessibility of second-wave nanoparticles to cancer cells to suppress tumor relapse and metastasis.

Yellow is not the new black: Discovery paves way for new generation of solar cells

A study for the first time explains how a promising type of perovskites - man-made crystals that can convert sunlight into electricity - can be stabilized. As a result, the crystals turn black, enabling them to absorb sunlight.

Shaping light with a smartlens

A team of researchers reports on a dynamically tuneable lens capable of achieving almost any complex optical function.