Metal-Free Antennas Made of Flexible Nanotube Films
Scientists from Rice University's Brown School of Engineering have created a new type of antenna made from carbon nanotube films.
Wearable Sensors Detect Toxic Chemicals
Just like civilians, soldiers already carry sophisticated wireless devices with them every day. New technology add-ons take advantage of the processing power of smartphones.
Carbon Nanotubes Improve Metal’s Radiation Tolerance
The intense radiation that nuclear reactors produce can make the reactor's metal porous and brittle, which leads to cracking and failure. An international team of engineers has discovered an inexpensive solutio... Read More...
MIT Team Uses Sugar to Make Portable Power Device
In this time-lapse series of photos, progressing from top to bottom, a coating of sucrose (ordinary sugar) over a wire made of carbon nanotubes is lit at the left end, and burns from one end to the other. As i... Read More...
Scientists Develop Blackest Material Ever
A new material is so dark that the human eye can’t even see it. People who have seen the material say it’s like looking into a hole. This new super-black material absorbs up to 99 percent of all light that hits... Read More...
Stanford’s New Artificial Skin Senses Pressure
A team of Stanford University engineers has created artificial skin that can sense changes in pressure. The material could eventually be used to make prosthetic limbs that allow users to feel the objects they t... Read More...
Optical Rectenna Converts Light into DC Current
Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated the first optical rectenna—a device that combines the functions of an antenna and a rectifier diode to convert light directly into DC current. ... Read More...
3D Stacked Computer Chips Combine Logic and Memory
A conventional chip on the left and Stanford's new stacked chip on the right
Carbon nanotubes solve many engineering challenges, and now a team from Stanford University has used them to make a computer chip... Read More...
Electrically Conducting Fibers Stretch 14 Times their Length
Elastic conducting fibers could be used in everything from robotics to aerospace and consumer electronics. The challenge is that stretching conventional materials changes their electrical resistance. Researcher... Read More...
Researchers Make Progress on Powerful New Method to Generate Electricity
MIT researchers found a new way to generate electricity using a short piece of yard made of carbon nanotubes with Trinitrotoluene (TNT) that was lit with a laser in 2010. For four years, the research team h... Read More...