Material Science & Technology

But a new study shows that these batteries could still have a useful and profitable second life as backup storage for grid-scale solar photovoltaic installations, where they could perform for...

Zombies or enemies flashing right before your eyes and the dizzying feeling of standing on the edge of a cliff using virtual reality and augmented reality (AR and VR) are...

An international team of scientists, led by the Universities of Surrey and Sussex, has developed colour-changing, flexible photonic crystals that could be used to develop sensors that warn when an...

Waves, whether they are light waves, sound waves, or any other kind, travel in the same manner in forward and reverse directions—this is known as the principle of reciprocity. If...

A research team led by MIT has made graphene foam into equipment that can extract uranium and other heavy metals from tap water. A reusable 3D functionalized reduced graphene oxide...

Novel tensegrity metamaterials by UCI and Georgia Institute of Technology researchers employ isolated compressive loop elements that are exclusively connected through a continuous network of tensile members (highlighted in magenta)....

An artist’s view of a metasurface consisting of a rectangular array of rectangular gold nanostructures generating plasmonic surface lattice resonances. Credit: Yaryna Mamchur, co-author and Mitacs Summer Student from the...

The optical forces acting on the nanodiamond. The nanodiamond absorbs a part of the laser light that shines on it (Fabs); some of the light is also scattered (Fsca). The...

Left: Atomic-resolution electron microscopy image of the bilayer and trilayer regions of Re0.5Nb0.5S2 revealing its stacking order. Right: Real-space charge transfer plot showing the charge transfer from Re0.5Nb0.5S2 to the...

A transmission electron microscope image shows the interlayer spacing of turbostratic graphene produced at Rice University by flashing carbon black from discarded rubber tires with a jolt of electricity. Credit:...