The molecular machinery of the human body typically relies on genetic templates to carry out construction. For example, molecular machines called DNA…
Dental plaque and the viscous brown slime in drainpipes are two familiar examples of bacterial biofilms. Removing such bacterial depositions from surfaces is…
Until recently, the Rice lab of James Tour made LIG only in open air, using a laser to burn part of the way through a flexible polyimide sheet to get…
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have produced and precisely measured a spectrum of X-rays using a new,…
Computational materials design is traditionally used to improve and further develop already existing materials. Simulations grant a deep insight into the…
“One of the ideas we came up with was materials that live,” said Igor S. Aronson, holder of the Huck Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry…
Materials with a high thermoelectric figure of merit are thus widely desired for use in energy harvesting. Quantum confinement effects in nanomaterials arising…
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an extremely sensitive technique that allows us to image materials and/or characterize their physical properties on the atomic…
The researchers succeeded by overcoming some of the technical challenges presented in the fabrication of the platinum-zinc nanoparticles with an ordered…
An acoustic cloak is a material shell that can control the propagation direction of sound waves to make a target undetectable in an acoustic system. The carpet…
Until now, all artificial retinal research has used only rigid, hard materials. The new research, by Vanessa Restrepo-Schild, a 24 year old Dphil student and…
“In the semiconductor industry, for example, defects are important because you can control properties through defects,” said Mauricio Terrones, professor of…
Polymer chemists at Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan invented a novel and simple coating process to color metals, leading to higher performance and…
In 2004, the discovery of a way to isolate a single atomic layer of carbon — graphene –opened a new world of 2D materials with properties not necessarily…
Depending on their solubility, solids can completely dissolve in liquids to form clear solutions, or form suspensions that still contain undissolved solid….
Many measurement techniques, such as spectroscopy, benefit from the ability to split a single beam of light into two in order to measure changes in one of…
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