Biodegradable Paper Sensor Detects Spoiled Food
Biodegradable Paper Sensor Detects Spoiled Food: Smart paper packaging with built-in sensors could offer real-time warnings of spoiled food or temperature conditions likely to...
A Crystal Shape Conundrum is Finally Solve
Rice theorists’ method can predict shapes of crystals that lack symmetry
A Crystal Shape Conundrum is Finally Solve: A crystal’s shape is determined by its...
Novel Nanomaterial Catalyst Swaps Heat for Light
Novel Nanomaterial Catalyst Swaps Heat for Light: Researchers at Rice University have engineered a key light-activated nanomaterial for the hydrogen economy. Using only inexpensive...
Zinc Batteries are Great, Improvements to Compete with Lithium
by Tsinghua University Press
Zinc Batteries are Great, Improvements to Compete with Lithium: Zinc batteries potentially offer a much lower fire risk than their market-leading...
Probing Adhesion of ‘Tricky’ Materials at the Microscale
Probing Adhesion of ‘Tricky’ Materials at the Microscale: Scientists have been exploring and exploiting adhesion for centuries. Our knowledge of how to join surfaces...
How “2D” Materials Expand
Adam Zewe | MIT News Office
A new technique that accurately measures how atom-thin materials expand when heated could help engineers develop faster, more powerful electronic devices.
How...
Achieving High Thermal Conductivity in Plant Fiber Materials
Achieving High Thermal Conductivity in Plant Fiber Materials: Researchers at the University of Tokyo and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed...
Easier and Safer to use Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Nanocomposite Materials
by Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Easier and Safer to use Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Nanocomposite Materials: A research team from Skoltech, Aalto University, and...
Valuable Raw Materials from ‘red mud’
Valuable Raw Materials from 'red mud': Waste slags from the metallurgy industries often contain valuable materials, but in very small concentrations. This means that...
New Material Will Make Locally Flexible Diodes Possible
Researchers find new material with significant potential for electronics applications
Diodes allow directed flows of current. Without them, modern electronics would be inconceivable. Until now,...
