Graphene is largely transparent to the eye and, as it turns out, largely transparent to water. A new study by scientists at Rice University and Rensselaer…
Since early January 2012, Angelika Kühnle, Professor of Physical Chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and André Gourdon, Director of the Materials…
Food that stays fresher for longer and varnishes that keep furniture looking new is the goal of new plastic technologies to be developed by a consortium set up…
This nanomaterial responds to warnings that as many as 60 million people live in contaminated areas in Southeast Asia without safe drinking water.The…
For the first time, a superconducting current limiter based on YBCO strip conductors has now been installed at a power plant. At the Boxberg power plant of…
The search for more effective methods of decontamination of radioactive substances discharged from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant following the…
Jennifer Lewis, the Hans Thurnauer Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and graduate student S. Brett Walker described the new ink in the Journal of…
Their discovery is reported this week in the current issue of Nature Nanotechnology. The new technique has many practical implications, especially that…
New evidence this week supports a theory developed five years ago at Rice University to explain the electrical properties of several classes of materials –…
Like the human body, a digital device often suffers a few bruises and scratches within a lifetime. As in medicine, these injuries can be easily detected and…
Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for creating advanced nanomaterials that could lead to highly efficient…
Ferroelectric materials, which switch their polarization with the application of an electric field, have long been used in devices such as ultrasound machines…
Much of modern technology is based on silicon's use as a semiconductor material, but research recently published in the journal Nature Materials shows that…
Signal amplificationAmplification of optical signals is critical in photonics applications. Semiconductor optical waveguide amplifiers have high gain per unit…
From pre-packed Camembert to shrink-wrapped meat loaf – choosing the right packaging is a key issue in the food industry. Companies need to protect food…
Situated at the Chemelot Chemical Innovation Community in the Province of Limburg, NL, partners strive for excellence in most modern biobased materials…
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