Cooled to almost absolute zero, atoms not only move in waves like light but also can be focused into shapes called caustics, similar to the reflecting or refracting patterns light makes on the bottom ...

Researchers have developed a simple and eco-friendly way to use a laser to turn natural leather into flexible and wearable ...

Crystalline arsenic trisulfide shows record photorefractive response and can be laser-patterned at 500-nm resolution without ...

A scalable nanofabrication method uses electric-field alignment and picosecond laser welding to imprint patterned silver nanowire networks on polymer films. (Nanowerk News) A breakthrough development ...

Just as embroiderers, with needle and thread, can transform plain fabric into an intricate pattern, engineers can use lasers and polymers to create flexible, complex structures that could transform ...

Laser-written leather microsupercapacitors enable flexible, eco-friendly energy storage for wearables, simplifying ...

A project at China's Jilin University has demonstrated a method for turning natural leather into a flexible wearable energy source. Q-Factor grabs $24M to kick-start development of million-qubit ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy. Inspired by this work, scientists at Institute of Photonic Chips (IPC), University of ...