Quantum dot white LEDs achieve record efficiency

Researchers have demonstrated nanomaterial-based white-light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that exhibit a record luminous efficiency of 105 lumens per watt. Luminous efficiency is a measure of...

MARY CORSE: A Survey in Light

At the entrance to Mary Corse: A Survey in Light at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a monitor plays White Light (1968), a film showing a young...

A record-breaking hydrogen-rich superconductor

A new hydrogen-rich compound may be a record-breaking superconductor The material appears to transmit electricity without resistance at a relatively high temperature Superconductors are heating up,...

Automation for Supply Chain Marketing & Sales

When you think about automation in the supply chain, you probably don’t immediately consider marketing and sales. Perhaps you envision robots scooting around warehouse...

3D Printing Is the Future of Factories (for Real This Time)

FACTORIES, THE CHIEF innovation of the industrial revolution, are cathedrals of productivity, built to shelter specialized processes and enforce the division of labor. Adam Smith,...

Inkjet printing of optoelectronics and photonics

Black phosphorus is a two-dimensional material of great interest, in part because of its high carrier mobility and thickness dependent direct bandgap. However, its...

Carbon is the new black

Engineers with the University of Cincinnati are leveraging a partnership with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to create clothing that can charge your cell phone. Move...

Magnetic effect in superconducting spintronics

The emerging field of spintronics leverages electron spin and magnetization. This could enhance the storage capacity of computer hard drives and potentially play an...

Fully Biodegradable Sensor for Rehabilitation Monitoring

The US Stanford scientist Paige Fox and her team from the Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center alongside...

New Dust Filter Material Created from Nanofibers

A team of researchers at Stanford University have developed a new nanofiber filtration material with flame retardant qualities that may eventually replace filters made...