Physical Science & Technology

Arranged around it are a selection of 2-D materials that have been investigated. Courtesy: Mathieu Luisier/ETH Zurich. With the increasing miniaturization of electronic components, researchers are struggling with undesirable side...

Led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a study of a solar-energy material with a bright future revealed a way to...

The copper nanoclusters formed beautiful red crystals. Courtesy: Journal of the American Chemical Society. KAUST researchers could serve as a roadmap to guide the design of new catalysts and imaging...

Global economic growth comes with increasing demand for energy, but stepping up energy production can be challenging. Recently, scientists have achieved record efficiency for solar-to-fuel conversion, and now they want...

Scanning transmission electron micrscopy image of superlattice consisting of an alternating sequence of 5 atomic unit cells of neodymium nickelate (blue) and 5 atomic unit cells of samarium nickelate (yellow)....

An artist rendering of a high-Q metasurface beamsplitter. These “high-quality-factor” or “high-Q” resonators could lead to novel ways of manipulating and using light. Courtesy: Riley A. Suhar. Light is notoriously...

Two composite pictures, each using the TSOM method, show a single nanocontaminant on a semiconductor sample, recorded at several different distances from the lens of an optical microscope. Red indicates...

Like biological fat reserves store energy in animals, a new rechargeable zinc battery integrates into the structure of a robot to provide much more energy, a team led by the...

Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich succeeded in developing a material that works like a luminescent solar concentrator and can even be applied to textiles. This opens up numerous possibilities...

Rice University will roll up for the second international Nanocar Race with a new vehicle. The one-molecule car has a permanent dipole that makes it easier to control. Courtesy: Alexis...