Tag: Advanced Materials
Solvay’s Zeniva® PEEK Enables Advanced Spinal Cage from Japan
Solvay’s Zeniva® PEEK was selected by KiSCO Co. for the first non-metal lumbar cage for vertical interbody fusion made in Japan. This advanced spinal...
Record efficiency for perovskite-based light-emitting diodes
Efficient near-infrared (NIR) light-emitting diodes of perovskite have been produced in a laboratory at Linköping University. The external quantum efficiency is 21.6 percent, which...
On-demand room-temperature single photon array—a quantum communication breakthrough
Physicists at The City College of New York have used atomically thin two-dimensional materials to realize an array of quantum emitters operating at room...
Designing novel physical states in condensed matter physics
Dirac materials such as graphene and topological insulators (TIs) are known to have unique electronic and spintronic properties. We combine graphene with TIs in...
Spray-on antennas could unlock potential of smart, connected technology
The promise of wearables, functional fabrics, the Internet of Things, and their "next-generation" technological cohort seems tantalizingly within reach. But researchers in the field...
A 200-year-old guide to color, redesigned for the internet age
The nomenclature of colors we use today is really a machine language–numerical hex codes crafted to communicate with software on computers and printers. Before...
Super cheap earth element to advance new battery tech to the...
Most of today's batteries are made up of rare lithium mined from the mountains of South America. If the world depletes this source, then...
Transparent loudspeakers and mics that let your skin play music
An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has presented an innovative wearable technology that will turn your skin into a loudspeaker.
This breakthrough has...
Record Efficiency for Single Structure Fully Printed Organic Photovoltaic
OET R&D team reached a record in power conversion efficiency to 7.4% for a fully Roll-to-Roll (R2R) printed polymer-based single junction Organic Photovoltaic (OPV)...
Graphene tunnelling junctions: beyond the breaking point
Molecular electronics is a burgeoning field of research that aims to integrate single molecules as active elements in electronic devices. Obtaining a complete picture...
