New graphene printing technology can produce electronic circuits that are low-cost, flexible, highly conductive and water repellent. The nanotechnology “would lend enormous value to self-cleaning wearable/washable electronics that are resistant to stains,…
Tag: Nanotechnology
Single metalens focuses all colors of the rainbow in one point
Metalenses — flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light — promise to revolutionize optics by replacing the bulky, curved lenses currently used in optical devices with a simple, flat surface. But,…
MIT Engineers create Nanobionic Light-Emitting Plants that can glow like a lamp
Imagine that instead of switching on a lamp when it gets dark, you could read by the light of a glowing plant on your desk. MIT engineers have taken a critical first…
3-D-printed device builds better nanofibers
A 3-D-printed manufacturing device can extrude fibers that are only 75 nanometers in diameter, or one-thousandth the width of a human hair. Meshes made from fibers with nanometer-scale diameters have a wide…
New nanomaterial can extract hydrogen fuel from seawater
It’s possible to produce hydrogen to power fuel cells by extracting the gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly. UCF researcher Yang Yang has come…