Researchers placed more than 3,000 glowing moon-shaped nanoscale molecular devices into a flower-shaped instrument for indicating the polarization of light. The “moons” in each of…
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By studying electricity meter measurements and electric vehicle registration records in California, researchers found that state regulators are overestimating how often people drive their EVs.…
View More Electric Vehicles Are Driven Less Often Than Policymakers Think – 1/2 As Much as Conventional Cars
New type of optical computing could solve highly complex problems that are out of reach for even the most powerful supercomputers. An important class of…
View More “Multiplying” Light Signals Could Be Key to Ultra-Powerful Optical Computers
Fabricating nanoelectronic circuits of the future just got a lot more interesting, thanks to DNA origami. The quest for ever-smaller electronic components led an international…
View More DNA Origami Enables Fabricating Superconducting Nanowires for Nanoelectronic Circuits of the Future
The base of the 2D-material with the white lines showing the structural kinks which modify the electrical properties mechanically. Credit: University of Sussex Nanomaterial developments…
View More Graphene “Nano-Origami” Creates Tiniest Microchips Yet – Could Make Computers and Phones Thousands of Times Faster
Scientists create liquid crystals that look a lot like their solid counterparts. A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of…
View More New Liquid Crystals Created That Resemble Solid Crystals – Could Improve Computer and TV Displays
In APL Bioengineering, researchers provide perspective on the Freefrom Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels 3D bioprinting approach, which solves the issue of gravity and distortion…
View More Fresh 3D-Printing Platform: Advanced Tissue Fabrication Paves Way for Bioprinting Tissues and Organs
MIT’s Erica Salazar shows that faster detection of thermal shifts can prevent disruptive quench events in the HTS magnets used in tokamak fusion devices. The…
View More New Fiber Optic Temperature Sensing Approach to Keep Tokamak Fusion Power Plants Running
The nanocellulose fibers created by the bacteria are about a thousand times thinner than the width of a human hair. Credit: Luiz Greca Technique creates…
View More Scientists Use Bacteria As Micro-3D Printers to Create Highly Customized Structures
Sandia National Laboratories researchers in the Mechanics of Materials department utilize the new fracture testing hangers for traditional interlaminar composite fracture testing as well as…
View More New Equipment Finds the Flaws in Everything – From Airplanes to Cell Phones