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• Israeli researchers create new diode with optically controlled capacitance

  A team of researchers from Technion (the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa) has published a report about a new capacitor that features a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) diode structure. details>>

• Empa researchers developing next generation electrolytes for batteries

  Researchers at the Empa (Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) in Dubendorf, Switzerland have announced the development of novel, next generation solid-state electrolytes to replace liquid. details>>

• Graphene research continues with 3-D printed foam and new chemical method

  Researchers at the University of Illinois-Chicago have developed a new chemical method to attach nanomaterials onto graphene without changing the properties and the arrangement of the carbon atoms. details>>

• Carbon nanotube heating device recovers fresh water from brine

  Researchers at the University of California Riverside (UCR) Bourns College of Engineering have developed a carbon nanotube-based heating element that can be sued to recover nearly 100 percent of the water from highly concentrated salt solutions. details>>

• Researchers use graphene to tune functionality of molecular devices

  A team of researchers from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London (U.K.) and the University of Bern (Switzerland) have demonstrated the stability of multi-layer, graphene-based molecular devices to the single molecule limit. details>>

• Research paves the way for production of hybrid silicon lasers

  A team of researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore has developed a new method for manufacturing a hybrid III-V semiconductor and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) optical microcavity that will reduce the complexity of fabricating hybrid silicon lasers. details>>

• Researchers develop ways to control molecular vibrations that transmit heat

  A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, N.Y.) have used the newly constructed inelastic X-ray scattering (IXS) beamline to track the dynamic molecular features of soft materials. details>>

• Texas A&M researchers find special class of 2-D semiconductors

  Researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University (College Station) have discovered a special class of two-dimensional materials that feature two ferroic characteristics simultaneously. details>>

• Article explores recent industry developments in heat exchangers

  An article from Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. (ATS) explored recent developments in heat exchanger technology, particularly heat exchangers used in electronics cooling. details>>

• UT-Dallas engineer designs all-carbon, spintronic computing system

  Dr. Joseph Friedman, a researcher at the University of Texas at Dallas, has designed a novel computing system that uses carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons to build spintronic transistors. details>>