At some point, spintronics might become a buzzword that is as much a part of our vocabulary as electronics. The...

The cross-section of a fiber produced at Rice University contains tens of millions of carbon nanotubes. The lab continually improves...

Wei Gao's triboelectric generator is made of commonly available commercial materials and creates electricity when the wearer moves. Courtesey: Caltech....

The ocean floor and the ground beneath our feet are riddled with tiny nanowires—1/100,000th the width of a human hair—created...

Arranged around it are a selection of 2-D materials that have been investigated. Courtesy: Mathieu Luisier/ETH Zurich. With the increasing...

Led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, a study of a...

New deposition approach: synthesising and exfoliating (transferring onto a silicon substrate for example) 2D semiconducting MoS2. Credit: FLEET Moore’s law...

The copper nanoclusters formed beautiful red crystals. Courtesy: Journal of the American Chemical Society. KAUST researchers could serve as a...

Ultrathin materials such as graphene promise a revolution in nanoscience and technology. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have...

The human brain efficiently executes highly sophisticated tasks, such as image and speech recognition, with an exceptionally lower energy budget...