Science
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Material for polymer solar cells may lend itself to large-area processing
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: New research results reported by an international team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) indicate that the “sweet spot” for mass-producing polymer solar cells — a tantalizing prospect for decades... -
Curbing the life-long effects of traumatic brain injury
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: A fall down the stairs, a car crash, a sports injury or an explosive blast can all cause traumatic brain injury (TBI). Patients often recover. But in the days or weeks following the hit,... -
Smarter self-assembly opens new pathways for nanotechnology
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: To continue advancing, next-generation electronic devices must fully exploit the nanoscale, where materials span just billionths of a meter. But balancing complexity, precision, and manufacturing scalability on such fantastically small scales is inevitably difficult.... -
Carbon molecular sieve membranes could cut energy in hydrocarbon separations
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: A research team from the Georgia Institute of Technology and ExxonMobil has demonstrated a new carbon-based molecular sieve membrane that could dramatically reduce the energy required to separate a class of hydrocarbon molecules known... -
Scientists count microscopic particles without microscope
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: The production of optical circuits requires devices that can amplify optical signals, bring them into focus, rotate and change their type of motion. Ordinary lenses cannot cope with these tasks at nanoscale, so scientists... -
Nothing, and something, give concrete strength, toughness
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: The “nothing” is in the form of microscopic voids and the “something” consists of particular particles embedded in the most common construction material on Earth. Rice University materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari and postdoctoral researcher... -
Mother Nature’s bio-superlens: Spider silk
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: Scientists at the UK’s Bangor and Oxford universities have achieved a world first: using spider-silk as a superlens to increase the microscope’s potential. Extending the limit of classical microscope’s resolution has been the ‘El... -
Capacity might be increased by six times: Lithium-ion batteries
Aug 22, 2016News Hour: The team was able to show through neutron measurements made at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, that lithium ions do not penetrate deeply into the silicon. During the charge cycle, a 20-nm anode... -
Chorus of black holes radiates X-rays
Aug 21, 2016News Hour: Supermassive black holes do not give off any of their own light, hence the word “black” in their name. However, many black holes pull in, or accrete, surrounding material, and emit powerful bursts of... -
Earth-size telescope tracks the aftermath of a star being swallowed by a supermassive black hole
Aug 21, 2016News Hour: The international team, led by Jun Yang (Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), studied the new-born jet in a source known as Swift J1644+57 with the European VLBI Network (EVN), an Earth-size...
