ETH Zurich and Empa researchers develop a nanomaterial which enables considerably more power to be stored in lithium ion batteries.
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Nanowires greatly increase solar cell efficiency
Nanowire solar cells created at EPFL could absorb 12 times as much light as the current standard.
New procedure increases magnetic switching speed x1000
Researchers have found a new way to switch magnetism that is at least 1000 times faster than currently used in magnetic memory technologies.
Synthetic tissues from a 3D printer
A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with some properties of living tissues, Oxford University scientists have demonstrated.
Researchers find unexpected weakness in graphene sheets
Seven-atom ring that inevitably occurs at the junctions of grain boundaries in graphene is the culprit.
Georgia Tech team win DARPA contract for chip-cooling technology
Technology is intended to able to handle heat loads as much as ten times greater than systems commonly used today.
Nanostructured surfaces with antibacterial properties
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute develop new method to kill pathogenic bacteria without antiobiotics or chemicals.
Glass transition research improves knowledge of metallic glass
Simulations reveal that the formation of some glassy materials is like the setting of a bowl of gelatin.
Ultrafast logic gate from quantum dots
Researchers working to harness the quantum nature of light and semiconductors develop new logic system.
Functionalizing substrate surfaces to improve tissue engineering
Researchers investiage the effect of mussel-inspired polydopamine functionalization on the behavior of skeletal myoblasts.
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