This is a 3-D printed conductive buckyball that works as an electric switch.Credit: Courtesy of Dinesh K. Patel
Due to its excellent material properties of elasticity, resilience, and electrical and thermal insulation, elastomers have been used in a myriad of...
A schematic illustration of a microbial fuel cell using a paper electrode coated with carbon paste. Credit: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester
The concept behind microbial fuel cells, which rely on bacteria to generate an electrical current, is more than a...
Energy-efficient germanium nanowire transistor with programmable p- and n- conduction is shown. Transmission electron microscope image of cross section.Credit: NaMLab gGmbH
A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing...
The biomimetic tree's leaves, modeled after cottonwood leaves, rely on piezoelectrical processes to produce electricity.Credit: Christopher Gannon
Money doesn't grow on trees, but electricity might someday.
Iowa State University scientists have built a device that mimics the branches and leaves of...
From the top left corner, moving clockwise, the four images depict: University at Buffalo students performing an experiment, clean drinking water, water evaporating, and black carbon wrapped around plastic in water with evaporated vapor on top evaporated water. Credit:...
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) nanobeams synthesized by Berkeley researchers show exotic electrical and thermal properties. In this false-color scanning electron microscopy image, thermal conductivity was measured by transporting heat from the suspended heat source pad (red) to the sensing pad...
This synthetic catalyst uses an inexpensive metal at its core to produce hydrogen fast. Credit: Image courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Researchers find the key to speeding up the rate of reaction of a potential catalyst for energy storage...
Structural diagram showing electron hopping from an Fe2+ ion at an octahedral (B) site to an Fe3+ ion at a tetrahedral (A) site in Fe2CrO4.Credit: Image courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mined to make the first compass needles, the...
Topological transitions of a deformed kagome lattice by uniform soft twisting. Credit: Nature Communications (2017). DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14201
When a material is made, you typically cannot change whether that material is hard or soft. But a group of University of Michigan...
THz waves confined in a novel slot waveguide interact with tunable, two-dimensional electron gas.Credit: Nano Lab, Tufts University School of Engineering
Tufts University engineers have invented a chip-sized, high-speed modulator that operates at terahertz (THz) frequencies and at room temperature...
Researchers have made the first important step toward integrating atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (APGNRs) onto nonmetallic substrates. Credit: Adrian Radocea, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Researchers have demonstrated the first important step toward integrating atomically precise graphene nanoribbons...
