This is an infrared image of metadevice composed of vanadium dioxide with gold patterned mesh. (Top) Device without any electric current showing the PSU cut from the pattern and reflective. (Middle) Device with 2.03 amps of current. The PSU...
From left, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Gaute Hagen, Thomas Papenbrock and Gustav Jansen used the Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to calculate the structure of doubly magic nickel-78 and its neighbors. Image credit: Oak Ridge...
Sila Kiliccote, head of SLAC's GISMo (Grid Integration, Systems and Mobility) lab, and Stanford graduate student Gustavo Cezar look at a computer dashboard showing how appliances, batteries, lighting and other systems in a "home hub" network could be turned...
Gas bubbles form as researchers use a unique catalyst to convert water to hydrogen and oxygen. The inset image shows the catalytic materials at the nanoscale. Credit: Washington State University
Washington State University researchers have found a way to more...
A magentic cup-like shape, created in the 3-D printer. Credit: TU Wien
Today, manufacturing strong magnets is no problem from a technical perspective. It is, however, difficult to produce a permanent magnet with a magnetic field of a specific pre-determined...
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists have developed ways to relatively quickly turn carbon dioxide captured from power plants to a solid for long-term storage. Peter Kelemen and his team examine carbonate veins in mantle rock that could provide another way...
LLNL researchers were part of a team that demonstrated a bi-material microlattice structure, 3D printed from polymer and a polymer/copper composite material, that can flex inward, causing the structure to contract when exposed to heat over a range of...
Yuan Yang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed a new method to increase the energy density of lithium (Li-ion) batteries. He has built a trilayer structure that is stable even in ambient air,...
Illustration shows how a robot could assemble the trusses that would support a massive telescope mirror.Credit: Sergio Pellegrino/Caltech
Seeing deep into space requires large telescopes. The larger the telescope, the more light it collects, and the sharper the image it...
Despite the potential for powering the world with energy from the sun—the most abundant source of renewable energy - only about 1 percent of the world's energy production currently comes through solar cell technology. That's because solar cells are...
The interior of the fusion experiment Alcator C-Mod at MIT recently broke the plasma pressure record for a magnetic fusion device. The interior of the donut-shaped device confines plasma hotter than the interior of the sun, using high magnetic...
