Scientific Inventions

Atomic-resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy image of a borophene-graphene lateral heterostructure with an overlaid schematic of interfacial boron-carbon bonding. Image width: 1.7 nm. Credit: Northwestern UniversityNanomaterials…

The scientific and industrial communities who work with micro- and nanoparticles continue to labour with the challenge of effective particle dispersion. Most particles that disperse in liquids aggregate rapidly and eventually precipitate,…

Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a cheap #catalyst can split water and generate #hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh…

A University of Maryland-led team of researchers has discovered a method to reliably synthesize and trap #trions that remain stable at room temperature. The research makes it possible to manipulate trions and study their fundamental…

Stanford researchers have devised a way to generate hydrogen fuel using solar power, electrodes and saltwater from San Francisco Bay.The findings, published March 18 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrate a new…

A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have taken inspiration from underwater invertebrates like #jellyfish to create an electronic skin with similar functionality.Just like a jellyfish, the electronic…

Electronics rule our world, but electrons rule our electronics. A research team at The Ohio State University has discovered a way to simplify how electronic devices use those electrons using a #material that can serve dual roles in…

We can probably all agree that charging cables are just the worst and that we'd love to have fewer of them in our lives. Now, a new invention might give us just that: engineers have developed a flexible device that harvests energy from…

A team of researchers based at The University of Manchester have found a low cost method for producing graphene printed electronics, which significantly speeds up and reduces the cost of conductive graphene inks.Printed #electronics…

MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials, including metals, quantum dots, and DNA.