This image shows an energy diagram of the WSe2-MoSe2 device. When a photon (1) strikes the WSe2 layer, it knocks loose an electron (2), freeing it to conduct through the WSe2 (3). At the junction between the two materials,...
This is a schematic of a solar-powered electrolysis cell which converts carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon and oxygenate products with an efficiency far higher than natural photosynthesis. Power-matching electronics allow the system to operate over a range of sun conditions.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that uses light to get flat, plastic sheets to curve into shapes such as spheres, tubes or bowls.
Credit: Amber Hubbard
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique...
This figure illustrates the computer-aided design model for design configuration #13. The turbine blades are assumed to be made of carbon fiber and the turbine shaft and blade supports are made of Aluminum 2024.
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University of Adelaide researchers have delved into the realm of Star Wars and created a powerful tractor beam -- or light-driven energy trap -- for atoms.
Rather than sucking space-ships into a space-station, this tractor beam pulls atoms into a...
Oil drop moves away from the landing point to the direction set by asymmetric geometrical patterning of the surface.Credit: Ville Jokinen / Aalto University
Researchers of Aalto University have developed surfaces where oil transports itself to desired directions. Researchers' oleophobic...
The latest development in textiles and fibers is a kind of soft hardware that you can wear: cloth that has electronic devices built right into it.
Researchers at MIT have now embedded high speed optoelectronic semiconductor devices, including light-emitting diodes...
Researchers in Oregon State University's College of Engineering have taken a key step toward the rapid manufacture of flexible computer screens and other stretchable electronic devices, including soft robots.
The advance by a team within the college's Collaborative Robotics and...
Yale scientists have found a way to amplify the intensity of light waves on a silicon microchip.Credit: Yale University
Yale scientists have found a way to greatly boost the intensity of light waves on a silicon microchip using the power...
Iowa State University plant scientist Patrick Schnable quickly described how he measured the time it takes for two kinds of corn plants to move water from their roots, to their lower leaves and then to their upper leaves.
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MIT chemists have now developed a 3-D printing technique that allows them to print objects and then go back and add new polymers that alter the materials’ chemical composition and mechanical properties. These new polymers can be reactivated by...
