For First Time Ever, Carbon Nanotube Transistors Have Outperformed Silicon

Carbon nanotubes are one of the most conductive materials ever discovered. Now, for the first time ever, scientists made a transistor using carbon nanotubes that beats silicon.

Graphene key to growing two-dimensional semiconductor with extraordinary properties

The first-ever growth of two-dimensional gallium nitride using graphene encapsulation could lead to applications in deep ultraviolet lasers, next-generation electronics and sensors.

New Memory Device Foreshadows Flexible Electronics

A team of researchers has recently made a critical breakthrough in the pursuit of flexible electronics. The team successfully developed a high-performance magnetic memory embedded on flexible plastic material.

Wonder stuff: Material "grown" at Trinity College Dublin could bring roll-up TVs

Scientists at TCD have made groundbreaking advances with a new material that may one day be used to build roll-up television screens.

Nanoscientists develop the 'ultimate discovery tool'

The discovery power of the gene chip is coming to nanotechnology. Researchers have figured out how to make combinatorial libraries of nanoparticles in a very controlled way. Some of the nanoparticle compositions have never been observed before on Earth.

DNA Could Be Used As Nanowire

DNA is the fundamental molecule for life on Earth, but it might soon become a key component in the construction of nanoelectronic devices as well.

New see-through material for electronics

Even though conducting missing electrons and transparency were considered mutually exclusive, this new material both efficiently conducts missing electrons and retains most of its transparency to visual light.

Powering Nanotechnology With The World's Smallest Engine

In the minuscule world of nanotechnology, big steps are rare. But a recent development has the potential to massively improve our lives: an engine measuring 200 billionths of a metre, which could power tiny robots to fight diseases in living cells.

Scientists create 'rewritable magnetic charge ice'

Scientists have developed a new material, called 'rewritable magnetic charge ice,' that permits an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic fields and could pave the way for new computing technologies.

Electronic material heals after being cut in two - Futurity

A new electronic material is flexible and can heal all its functions automatically - even after researchers bend it, stretch it, and snip it in half.

Invisibility cloak hides objects from radar

Engineers have demonstrated a thin, scalable invisibility cloak that can adapt to different types and sizes of objects.

A battery you can charge hundreds of thousands of times

UC Irvine chemists create technology with potentially game-changing charging capacity.

Ultrathin organic material enhances e-skin display

Researchers have developed an ultrathin, ultraflexible, protective layer and demonstrated its use by creating an air-stable, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. This technology will enable creation of electronic skin (e-skin) displays of blood oxygen level, e-skin heart rate sensors for athletes and many other applications.

First transistors made entirely of nanocrystal 'inks'

Engineers have shown a new approach for making transistors and other electrical devices: sequentially depositing their components in the form of liquid nanocrystal 'inks'.

Nanotubes get organized to form films

A simple filtration process helped researchers create flexible, wafer-scale films of highly aligned and closely packed carbon nanotubes.