Materials R&D

The best performing printed electronic devices have particular molecular alignments within their structure. "In transistors, we found that as the alignment between molecules increased, so did ...

The Large Hadron Collider has woken from its winter slumber with a bang. Just after midnight local time on 5 April, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, based near Geneva, Switzerland, shattered its own world record by smashing protons together with a combined energy of 8 teraelectronvolts (TeV).

Graphene is ready for commercialisation, according to a series of presentations yesterday at the Centre for Graphene Science set up by the Universities of Bath and Exeter.

Graphene is cool stuff. Researchers around the world are studying the single-atom layers of carbon, and the American Physical Society's March meeting in Boston devoted 40 sessions to the topic.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an oxide semiconductor that can be doped p or n-type, claiming it to be the first. Oxides and sulphide were some of the earliest...

Maybe it was unbelievable for a reason. The signs that neutrinos may travel faster than light, contradicting the well-tested rules of Einstein's special theory of relativity, look like they may have been due to a bad GPS connection.

The 52 year-old technology pioneering company, Energy Conversion Devices (ECD), has filed for Chapter 11 after an ill-starred foray into solar energy generation.

It has already broken the record for the most energetic particle collisions, but the world's largest particle smasher is boosting its energy still further. Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider hope this will confirm or rule out tantalising hints of the elusive Higgs particle.

Astonishing conductivity helped the discoverers of graphene win the Nobel prize in physics in 2010. Now a way to switch off the easy flow of electrons in this form of carbon is bringing superfast graphene computers closer.

Self-assembling serpentine nano-structures can tune graphene's magnetic properties and bandgap, claimed scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. They have been dubbed nano-wiggles. "Nano-wiggles were only recently...