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.
The quest for solar cell materials that are inexpensive, stable, and efficient leads to a breakthrough in thin film organic-inorganic perovskites.
A new polymer, created with a structure inspired by crystalline silicon, may make it easier to build better computers and solar cells.
Developing a highly active and acid-stable catalyst for water splitting could significantly impact solar energy technologies.
A twisted array of atomic magnets were driven to move in a curved path, a needed level of control for use in future memory devices.
Simple, economical process makes large-diameter, high-performance, thin, transparent, and conductive foils for bendable LEDs and more.
Tracking movements of individual particles provides understanding of collective motions, synchronization and self-assembly.
More atomic bonds is the key for performance in a newly discovered family of cage-structured compounds.
Bottom-up synthesis of tunable carbon nanoribbons provides a new route to enhance industrial, automotive reactions.
Enhanced stability in the presence of water could help reduce smokestack emissions of greenhouse gases.
New material based on common iron ore can help turn intermittent sunlight and water into long-lasting fuel.
