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• Researchers create nanowire circuit boards that dissolve when cooled

  Researchers have created silver nanowires embedded with a polymer that dissolves in water that falls below 32 degrees Celsius, which falls between body and room temperature. details>>

• Versatile optomechnical beams can act as thermometer or as heat shield

  Collaboration has led to the development of microscopic structural beams that work at room temperature as inherently accurate thermometers or as an optical shield to divert heat. details>>

• Researchers use white graphene to build thermally stable, small sensors

  A team of researchers has created tiny sensors with two-dimensional sheets of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), known as white graphene. details>>

• Researchers use magnetic tremors to reveal superconductivity in 2-D material

  Researchers demonstrated that tiny magnetic tremors can reveal superconductivity in a 2-D material composed of metallic nano-layers, in this case nickel-bismuth. details>>

• New electron pairing could lead to more high-temperature superconductors

  A team of scientists has discovered that an orbital-selective pairing could take place and be the reason that certain materials develop the ability to carry electric current with no resistance at high temperatures. details>>

• New material discovered that could lead to more stable quantum computing

  Researchers have discovered new topological insulators with superconducting properties that could be used to create fault-tolerant quantum computers. details>>

• Hypersonic travel could be on horizon with discovery of new material

  The University of Manchester discovered a new carbide coating that outperforms other high-temperature ceramics (UHTC) and could pave the way for hypersonic travel. details>>

• MIT research demonstrates photon interactions at room temperature

  Researchers at MIT demonstrated a new technique for causing photon-photon interactions at room temperature using a silicon crystal with distinctive patterns etched in it. details>>

• MIT researchers produce device to turn industrial waste heat into electricity

  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge have developed liquid thermoelectric device with a molten compound of tin and sulfur that efficiently converts waste heat to electricity. details>>

• Breakthrough in electrolyte chemistry allows batteries to run at ultra-low temps

  Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed electrolytes from liquified gas that enable lithium-ion batteries to function at temperatures as low as -60 degrees Celsius. details>>