The research team's testing showed that the material could rapidly and efficiently clean up oil spills on water.Credit: KAUST; Xavier...

HAADF-STEM image reveals the ultrathin disordered layer at the grain boundaries with a thickness of about 5nm. Credit: Science DOI:...

Pseudo-color scanning electron micrograph of the integrated lightwave electronic circuit. Incident ultrafast light waves induce photocurrents in the circuit that...

Carmakers have been using natural fibres for decades in high-end sedans and coupes. Natural fibers such as hemp, flax and...

Hall-bar device on solid proton conductor used for measurements. Credit: FLEET A Chinese-Australian collaboration has demonstrated for the first time...

Examples of water-repellent insects equipped with high solid fraction nanoscale surface textures. (A) Optical and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images...

  Many natural surfaces can rapidly shed water droplets due to their water-repellent functionality. In 1945, scientists Cassie and Baxter...

Photo: Inspired by the work of Japanese snowflake researcher Ukichiro Nakaya, materials scientists from Rice University the University of Pennsylvania...

The feasibility of collecting the charges in a semiconductor means that they can be used in solar cells and in...

The vertices of this honeycomb network represent sites with two possible spin states. One intriguing property of this model is...