Tag: films

A research group led by Professor Minoru Osada (he, him) and postdoctoral researcher Yue Shi (she, her) at the Institute ...

Professors Stefan Seelecke and Paul Motzki at Saarland University are developing intelligent materials that are opening up new avenues in ...

INDIANAPOLIS, March 26, 2023 — The cold blast of an air conditioner can be a welcome relief as temperatures soar, ...

Countless historical photographs are stored in black and white in the world’s archives. Today, these cultural assets and contemporary documents ...

Semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWCNTs) are being used to develop a third generation of optimized shortwave infrared photodetectors that will ...

By illuminating a sample surface with short laser beam pulses, it is possible to film sequences of various chemical and ...

Information processing devices—such as smartphones—are becoming more sophisticated because their information recording density constantly increases, thanks to advances in microfabrication ...

High-quality graphite has excellent mechanical strength, thermal stability, high flexibility and very high in-plane thermal and electric conductivities and, thus, ...

Plastic sheets coated with an Eu3+ film that converts UV light to red light were able to accelerate growth of ...

HOUSTON – (Aug. 22, 2022) – A bit of brushing may be the secret to making better rechargeable lithium batteries.  ...

Polymer brush films consists of monomer chains grown in close proximity on a substrate. The monomers, which look like “bristles” ...

Precisely applied mechanical pressure can improve the electronic properties of a widely used polymer material. This requires that the material ...

Imagine this: A smooth touchscreen display placed on top of a thin silicone polymer film suddenly generates the feeling of ...

Artificially generated UV radiation is used in numerous industrial applications: for example, for the sterilization of air, water and surfaces ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientists have grown thin films of two different crystalline materials on top of each other using an ...

Copper (Cu) is of fundamental importance to our daily lives due to its excellent electrical conductivity, as well as other ...

Researchers improved polymer films, the basis for organic electric. The new material is promising for increasing the capacity in lithium polymer ...

Stretchy films and squishy gels help make wearable electronics, soft robotics and biocompatible tissues a reality. But too much force ...

Physicists from MIPT and Skoltech have found a way to modify and purposely tune the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes ...

Physicists at the University of Queensland have shed light upon how tiny whirlpools (vortices) get stuck to obstacles in superfluids.Credit: ...