Engineers at The Ohio State University have invented a coating to help soap pour out of plastic bottles more easily. Here, a drop of shampoo slides off a piece of polypropylene.Credit: Image from a video by Philip S. Brown,...
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...
Perovskite-based nanowire lasers are the most efficient known. A topological image of a nanowire is shown (left insert). Room temperature emission images above the lasing threshold for two nanowires composed of different halides, iodide (red in center) and bromide...
Stanford engineers created arrays of silicon nanocones to trap sunlight and improve the performance of solar cells made of bismuth vanadate (1μm=1,000 nanometers). Credit: Wei Chen and Yongcai Qiu, Stanford
A Stanford University research lab has developed new technologies to...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory chemist Sarah Baker holds a gas chromatography vial used to measure the amount of methanol produced by the enzyme-embedded polymer. Credit: George Kitrinos/LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have combined biology and 3-D printing to create the...
Scientists applaud the first detection of a "handed" molecule, (propylene oxide) in interstellar space. It was detected, primarily with the NSF's Green Bank Telescope, near the center of our Galaxy in Sagittarius (Sgr) B2, a massive star-forming region. Propylene...
This illustration depicts the process of light emission from a sheet of graphene, which is represented as the blue lattice on the top surface of a carrier material. The light-colored arrow moving upwards at the center depicts a fast-moving...
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...
Nanoparticle schematic.Credit: Ukidama
Sometimes it is the tiny things in the world that can make an incredible difference. One of these things is the nanoparticle. Nanoparticles may be small, but they have a variety of important applications in areas such...
Two leaded bronze artifacts found in northwestern Alaska are the first evidence that metal from Asia reached prehistoric North America prior to contact with Europeans, according to new Purdue University research.
"This is not a surprise based on oral history...
An artwork depicting the decomposition of FeOOH in lower mantle conditions. The cycle starts from α-FeOOH (blue dot on the top) to its high-pressure form (brown dot), to FeO2 (center crystal) and hydrogen (cyan bubbles), and finally produce other...
