Scientists review how we are matching – or exceeding – nature’s ability to make strong, tough lightweight structural materials.
Templates allow for materials with deliberate sizes and shapes for solar cells and electricity generation from waste heat.
Theoretical modeling of energy loss in solar cells may lead to more efficient materials to convert sunlight to electricity.
Predictable assembly of protein building blocks result in a new class of porous materials, with potential uses ranging from efficient fuel storage to practical carbon capture and conversion.
Atomic-scale simulations predict how to use nanoparticles to increase hydrogen production.
New electron-beam writing technique controls electronic properties for future on-demand re-configurable electronics.
Affordable, Earth-abundant catalyst achieves efficient solar-driven hydrogen fuel production.
A simplified architecture leads to efficiencies rivaling conventional silicon solar cells.
Patterned arrays of nanometer-sized connections in two-dimensional semiconductors could enable ultrathin integrated circuits for smartphones and solar cells.
Dressing electrons with a rotating field of laser light creates distinct, controllable states, opening the door for innovative electronics.
New X-ray technique reveals the presence of one-in-a-million large crystalline regions from metals fatiguing—stabilization schemes could lead to impervious metals.
Chameleon-like color changes are observed by confining liquid crystals within small drops.
