Materials
- Splitting Up Fatty Acids February 10, 2013
- Nanofiltration membrane technique separates vegetable oil molecules, opening the way to their broader industrial use
- Carbon Aerogels Sop Up Hydrocarbons March 3, 2013
- Porous ultralight materials made from bacterial cellulose could be used to clean up oil and fuel spills
- Magnetic Superatoms March 17, 2013
- Vanadium-sodium clusters with properties that mimic individual atoms could find use in spintronic devices
- Light-Activated Soft Material Inches Along March 15, 2013
- Composite made of a liquid-crystalline polymer and carbon nanotubes might someday put soft robots in motion
- Nanosolder For Safer Surgery April 9, 2013
- Nanomedicine: Composites of peptides and gold nanorods could help surgeons seal up incisions using laser light
- Carbon Nanotube-Coated Filters Foil Bacteria February 27, 2013
- Water Treatment: The materials hold a charge to thwart microbial slime from clogging reverse osmosis filters
- DNA Weaved Into A Gridiron March 24, 2013
- DNA origami strategy allows construction of curved and three-dimensional objects from the nucleic acid
- Thin Inorganic Ribbons Coil And Flex May 5, 2013
- Ability to bend imparts biomolecule-like self-assembly qualities to ordinarily rigid inorganic structures
- Titanium Dioxide Coating Improves Efficiency Of Graphene-Based Solar Cells April 3, 2013
- Solar Energy: The antireflective layer could lead to efficient, low-cost devices
- Mechanical and electronic properties of diborides of transition... May 5, 2013
Mechanical and electronic properties of diborides of transition 3d-5d metals from first principles: Toward search of novel ultra-incompressible and superhard materials Progress in Materials Science , Vol.
- Coatings Fight Furniture Fires May 2, 2013
- Nanomaterials: Ultrathin films could replace troublesome flame retardants
- Self-Assembly Gives Anticancer Drug An Edge March 3, 2013
- Camptothecin conjugated to a peptide self-assembles into nanomaterials that kill cancer cells effectively
- Nanoscale Pressure Sensors Mimic Human Skin April 25, 2013
Nano skin: Georgia Tech researcher Wenzhuo Wu holds an array of transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic signals.
- New Report on Technologies, Markets, and Players in Organic Photovoltaics May 6, 2013
- Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) 2013-2023: Technologies, Markets, Players" report to their offering. In this report, we develop...
- New battery design could help solar and wind power the grid April 24, 2013
"For solar and wind power to be used in a significant way, we need a battery made of economical materials that are easy to scale and still efficient," said Yi Cui, a Stanford associate professor of materials science and engineering and a member of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, a SLAC/Stanford joint institute.
