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Keeping the lights on: Solving the intermittency shortcomings of renewable solar energy.
Low-fatigue material remembers its shape, despite being transformed over 10 million times, could upgrade solar devices.
Creation of new neutral-charge, long-life quasiparticles may help explain high-temperature superconductivity.
Reversible self-assembled structures balance two competing attractions to enable stimuli-responsive materials.
Bacterial spore-polymer composites harness energy from evaporation to power locomotion and generate electricity.
A new approach creates microscale bioreactors for studying complex reactions for energy production and storage.
Careful tuning of a surface at the nanoscale could lead to robust materials for solar panels, other uses.
New models reveal the impact of competing processes on helium bubble formation in plasma-exposed tungsten.
Carbon nanotubes insert into artificial and active cell membranes, reproducing major features of biological channels.
New studies explain the transition, providing a quantitative picture of a 50-year-old mystery.
Discovery paves the way to quantitatively investigate the interplay among magnetism, superconductivity and disorder in high temperature superconductors.
Concentrating noble-metal catalyst atoms on the surface of porous nano-frame alloys shows over thirty-fold increase in performance.
