The future of solar cells – small and flexible enough to be put on your roof as shingles.

Scientists at the Ohio State University have developed a new solar energy material that has two major advantages over current materials : it can use the all the energy that comes from the sunlight and makes it easier to capture the electrons it generates. The hybrid material is a result of combining electrically conductive plastic [...]

Researchers at the University Of Texas in Austin came up with a new material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could provoke a cascade of other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene.
But first of all, what is this ‘graphene” ?
Graphene is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of sp2-bonded carbon atoms [...]

The human race relies heavily on plastic and other synthetic materials. Almost every household item has composite materials built-in. The modern era relies on these materials because they are lightweight and easy to maneuver. Yet there are some situations where these materials crack and we can’t repair. Imagine what happens when a prosthetic organ cracks, [...]