Colorado team develop a new form of silicone that is more transparent than window glass, and a better thermal insulator than ...

A new microscopy technique allows scientists to see single-atom-thick boron nitride by making it glow under infrared light.

Researchers from the Physical Chemistry and Theory departments at the Fritz Haber Institute have found a new way to image ...

In most buildings, windows remain the most vulnerable part of the structure when it comes to energy loss. Worldwide, ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a new window insulation material that could dramatically cut ...

RAILWAY AGE, OCTOBER 2023 ISSUE: What exactly is stress? It’s a tough—and often-asked—question. Welcome to “Timeout for Tech with Gary T. Fry, Ph.D., P.E.” Each month, we examine a technology topic ...

A face-serum staple just helped a research team build an invisible film that conducts electricity like a metal. At La Trobe University in Melbourne, the group used hyaluronic acid to guide the growth ...

Physicists at CU Boulder have developed a novel insulating material for windows to improve the energy efficiency of buildings ...

(Nanowerk News) Much of modern electronic and computing technology is based on one idea: add chemical impurities, or defects, to semiconductors to change their ability to conduct electricity. These ...

Scientists at La Trobe University have produced a new, powerful electricity-conducting material, in research which could revolutionise smartphones and wearable technologies like medical devices. The ...

This material is usually nearly invisible in optical microscopes because it has no optical resonances. To resolve this issue, ...