Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functioning.
Advanced Materials
New all-polymer memory devices developed
A research team from KAUST in Saudia Arabia have fabricated all-polymer nonvolatile bistable memory devices with potential for use in flexible and transparent electronics.
Alternative to fullerenes in organic solar cells — just as exciting
Insight into the properties of fullerene is set to open the door to better and cheaper organic solar cells.
Flexible silicon solar-cell fabrics may soon become possible
Researchers make a fiber out of crystalline silicon semiconductor materials that can function as a solar cell.
Growing nanosheets for supercapacitor electrodes
Professor X. W. Lou and co-workers report a new method to grow nanosheets on conductive substrates as a conductive agent-free electrode for supercapacitors.
Highly stable graphene-based ultrathin films: a covalent protocol
Chinese scientists have shown how to integrate highly stable graphene-based multilayered film via a novel covalent-based protocol.
Seeing the Light? Making Sense of Disorder in Polymer Opals
A new hyperspectral goniometry technique, to measure 3D angular scattering of light, shows scattering from polymer opals is anisotropic.
Naturally occurring fungus nanoparticles have potential for cancer therapy
Naturally occurring bioactive nanoparticles derived from a carnivorous fungus could have potential for application in cancer therapy.
Ames Laboratory scientists develop indium-free organic light-emitting diodes
US researchers have discovered new ways of using a well-known polymer in organic light emitting diodes.
New large-area nanoribbon fabrics
The fabrication and properties of large-area fabrics made from ribbons, themselves made from CdSe quantum-dot nanoparticles, are discussed in new research.
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