Nanomaterial charges everyday batteries in seconds

Factories would only have to adapt to the new electrodes, rather than throwing out their existing battery know-how.

Ultrathin device harvests electricity from human motion

A new electrochemical energy harvesting device can generate electrical current from the full range of human motions and is thin enough to embed in clothing.

A 100-year-old physics problem has been solved at EPFL

EPFL researchers have found a way around what was considered a fundamental limitation of physics for over 100 years.

Magnetic switch turns strange quantum property on and off

A research team has developed the first switch that turns on and off a quantum behavior called the Berry phase. The discovery may lead to new quantum electronic devices.

Bio-friendly energy storage device draws electrical power from the human body

The biological supercapacitor is a protein-based battery-like device capable of extracting energy from the human body.

Nano-Hologram Technology Will Bring 3D Images to Phones, Tablets, and TVs

A newly-developed ultra-thin material tricks the human eye into perceiving highly detailed 3D images without the need for special glasses.

Physicists design 2D superconductor materials

Two-dimensional quantum materials with novel electrical and magnetic attributes have been fabricated by physicists.

Irish researchers make major breakthrough in smart printed electronics

Researchers in Ireland have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of 2-dimensional nanomaterials for the first time. This breakthrough could unlock the potential for numerous applications

Novel Material May Lead to Self-Healing Smartphones

Researchers report that they have developed a self-healing polymeric material with an eye toward electronics and soft robotics that can repair themselves.

Liquid Nanometal Printing: The Next Big Advance for Electronics

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors made of materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are forming the future of electronic devices.

Graphene's sleeping superconductivity awakens

The intrinsic ability of graphene to superconduct has been activated for the first time. This further widens the potential of graphene as a material that could be used in fields such as energy storage, high-speed computing, and molecular electronics.

Nuclear Waste and Diamonds Make Batteries That Last 5,000 Years

An entirely new kind of electrical generation system could create abundant clean energy and also dispose of nuclear waste.

Ultra-fast 2-D and 3-D printing: Major advance in field of high-speed beam-scanning devices

A major technological advance in the field of high-speed beam-scanning devices has increased the speed of 2-D and 3-D printing by up to 1000 times.

New Super-Material Could Make Electronics 100 Times Greener

Researchers at Cornell University have engineered a new magnetic material that could potentially make electronics 100 times "greener". Could this be the dawn of room-temperature superconductors?