Materials
Light touch transforms material into a superconductor
18 Jan 2011
Oxford University researchers say that a non-superconducting material has been transformed into a superconductor using light
“Nanoscoops” could spark new generation of electric automobile batteries
10 Jan 2011
New nano-engineered batteries developed at Rensselaer exhibit remarkable power density, charging more than 40 times faster than today’s lithium-ion batteries
Structural distortions emerge from nothing at the nanoscale
29 Dec 2010
Researchers have discovered a new “opposite-direction” phase transition that helps explain the strong thermoelectric response of a class of materials known to convert heat to electricity and vice versa
Magnetic interactions bring about the formation of cooper pairs and allow unconventional superconductivity
15 Dec 2010
Quartz crystal microbalances enable new microscale analytic technique
08 Dec 2010
A new chemical analysis technique developed by a research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses the shifting ultrasonic pitch of a small quartz crystal to test the purity of only a few micrograms of material
Russian scientists win Physics Nobel for carbon breakthrough
05 Oct 2010
Andre Geim, and Konstantin Novoselov, 36, are currently professors at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom
Engineers make artificial skin out of nanowires
14 Sep 2010
Engineers at UC Berkeley have developed a pressure-sensitive electronic material from semiconductor nanowires that could one day give new meaning to the term "thin-skinned"
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