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MIT physicists turn pencil lead into “gold”
MIT physicists have metaphorically turned graphite, or pencil lead, into gold by isolating five ultrathin flakes stacked in a specific...
Oct 31, 20233 min read
Electrodes with hollow nanotubes improve performance of potassium-ion batteries
Researchers who are working to find alternatives to lithium-ion batteries have turned their attention to potassium-ion batteries....
Oct 30, 20232 min read
Tiny brick-busting ‘muscles’ for miniature robotics are sourced from wood
Wood is the source for a brick-breaking mini robotic muscle material developed by researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The...
Oct 30, 20232 min read
Researchers create the most water-repellent surface ever
Researchers have developed a new mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces, described in a paper published in Nature Chemistry....
Oct 24, 20233 min read
Light-induced shape shifting of MXenes
Ultrafast laser spectroscopy allows to observe the motion of atoms at their natural time scales in the range of femtoseconds, the...
Oct 23, 20233 min read
From a five-layer graphene sandwich, a rare electronic state emerges
Ordinary pencil lead holds extraordinary properties when shaved down to layers as thin as an atom. A single, atom-thin sheet of graphite,...
Oct 19, 20235 min read
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