Designer Binders Protect Silicon Battery Electrodes
New binding molecules formed a protective layer after charging and discharging, making a promising battery component more stable.
New binding molecules formed a protective layer after charging and discharging, making a promising battery component more stable.
Built from the bottom up, nanoribbons can be semiconducting, enabling broad electronic applications.
Direct writing of pure-metal structures may advance novel light sources, sensors and information storage technologies.
Scientists reveal structural, chemical changes as nickel-cobalt particles donate electrons, vital for making better batteries, fuel cells.
Scientists combine biology, nanotechnology into composites that light up upon chemical stimulation.
Scientists create widely controllable ultrathin optical components that allow virtual objects to be projected in real environments.
New materials could turn water into the fuel of the future.
Confined within tiny carbon nanotubes, extremely cold water molecules line up in a highly ordered chain.
Scientists design outstanding catalysts by controlling the composition and shape of these tiny plate-like structures on the nanoscale.
Scientists set record resolution for patterning materials at sizes as small as a single nanometer using microscope-based lithography.
For the first time, self-organized, soft machines powered by molecular motors propelled fluid for hours across meters.
Big impacts on crystal formation result from small changes and reveal design principles for new materials for solar cells, more.