Defect-engineered zinc oxide converts tiny reversible strains into near-infrared light, opening a rare-earth-free path to ...

Quantum technologies, devices that perform specific functions leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could soon outperform ...

Scientists have developed two new covalent organic frameworks (COFs) that efficiently produce hydrogen peroxide — a valuable ...

Insulators are materials in which electrons cannot move freely. Past theoretical studies predicted the existence of an unusual insulating state dubbed obstructed atomic insulator (OAI), in which ...

Plants and algae make their fuel from sunlight. Perhaps we could do the same using semiconductors. A team of scientists at ...

Using a new technique that can create vacancies at any site across a material and then shrink it to about 1/2,000 of its ...

Energy harvesting of all types generates significant interest and attention, as it has that aura of getting a little bit of ...