Light Emitting Devices with Fluorographene
Professor Andre Geim, who along with his colleague Professor Kostya Novoselov won the 2010 Nobel Prize for graphene – the world’s thinnest material, has...
Street Trees Illuminated by Gold Nanoparticles
The discovery that gold nanoparticles can induce luminescence in leaves has opened up the prospect of using roadside trees as street lights.
Post-doctor Yen-Hsun Su...
LHC to Produce a Mini Big Bang
Just four days after shutting down the LHC - Large Hadron Collider's proton running experiments, CERN has completed the transition to lead-ion running and has recorded its...
Quantum computers – closer to reality
Quantum computers should be much easier to build than previously thought, because they can still work with a large number of faulty or even...
Invisibility Cloaks Could Work
An Invisible Man with perfect vision sounds like a superhero from a comic, but may be close to reality thanks to scientists...
Windows that absorb solar energy
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have fabricated transparent thin films capable of absorbing...
Conductive plastic coatings could lead to new solar cells, windows, sensors
Oil and water don't mix, but add in some nanofibers and all bets are off.
A team of UCLA chemists and engineers has developed a...
Smart hybrid material to generate energy from sun, wind, wave and movement
Imagine a world where all those gadgets that seem to constantly need recharging – from your mobile phone to your laptop to your mp3...
Graphene and Water Will Be Soon Computers Components
Hailed as a miracle substance, graphene is easy to make a cheap to acquire and probably it could help us with anything from DNA...
Hydrogen fuel cell from seawater
Researchers have developed a method that uses aluminum and a liquid alloy to extract hydrogen from seawater to run engines in boats and ships,...