Finding new materials with useful properties is a primary goal for materials scientists, and it's central to improving technology. One exciting area of current research is 2D materials—super-thin ...

The quest for materials capable of combining semiconductor properties with superconductivity represents a major challenge for ...

Organic electronics can make a decisive contribution to decarbonization and, at the same time, help to cut the consumption of rare and valuable raw materials. To do so, it is not only necessary to ...

Characteristics of liquid-based electronic materials, including ionic liquid, conductive hydrogel, liquid metal, liquid-infused surface, and liquid-based adhesive, and their versatile applications in ...

The color green is often associated with St. Patrick’s Day. But in global manufacturing, green is the codeword for companies gravitating to using materials that are more environmentally sustainable, ...

(Nanowerk News) To an everyday consumer, the best gadgets on the market have the highest speed, the largest memory, and the longest battery life. Chasing this demand, the forefront of research often ...

Ferroelectric materials are used in infrared cameras, medical ultrasounds, computer memory and actuators that turn electric properties into mechanical properties and vice-versa. Most of these ...

In, Graphene: A new material for electronics, Part 2, of this blog series, I focused on the possible utilizations of graphene as building material for innovative applications in electronics ranging ...

Thermal management deals with problems arising from heat dissipation, thermal stresses and warping. It is critical in the packaging of power semiconductors and other microelectronic and optoelectronic ...

Stretchable electronics combines the electronic performance of conventional wafer-based semiconductor devices and mechanical properties of a rubber band, and thus can have very broad applications that ...