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Feb 4, 2013

Stanford Researcher Sheds New Light on the Mysteries of Spider Silk

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Craig Criddle in his lab in the Y2E2 building, Stanford University. | Photo: Norbert von der Groeben

Jan 15, 2013

How Methane-Sourced Polymers Could Save the World

Assistant Professor Jennifer Dionne | Photo: Joel Simon

Dec 4, 2012

New optical tweezers trap specimens just a few nanometers across

Nov 15, 2012

Manipulating light beams with ultracold atoms

Nov 15, 2012

Algorithm may help chipmakers work with tangles of nanotubes

Computation & Data, Materials

A researcher slices the self-healing skin with a scalpel. | Photo: Linda A. Cicero, Stanford News Service

Nov 11, 2012

Touch-sensitive plastic skin heals itself

Professor Shanhui Fan (center), post-doctoral scholar Zongfu Yu (right), both of the Stanford School of Engineering, and doctoral candidate Kejie Fang (left), of the Department of Physics, have used

Oct 31, 2012

Taming Mavericks: Stanford Researchers Use Synthetic Magnetism to Control Light

Postdoctoral fellow Guihua Yu, Associate Professor Zhenan Bao and visiting scholar Ligia Pan examine the hydrogel made in the Bao lab. | Photo: L.A. Cicero / Stanford News Service

Jul 12, 2012

Stanford engineers synthesize printable, electrically conductive gel

An image showing light scattering from a silicon nanowire running diagonally from bottom left to top right. The brighter areas are bare silicon while the dimmer sections are coated with gold demonstr

May 20, 2012

Cloak and swagger: Engineers use plasmonics to create an invisible photodetector

Decoration with nanoparticles creates intricate surface patterns full of nooks and crannies, twists and turns that greatly improve surface area. | Image courtesy of the Stanford Nanocharacterization

Apr 26, 2012

Bejeweled: Nanotech gets boost from nanowire decorations

This illustration shows lithium atoms (red) adhered to a graphene lattice that will produce electricity when bent, squeezed or twisted. Conversely, the graphene will deform when an electric field is

Mar 15, 2012

Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene

Electronics & Networking, Materials

This image from a computer simulation shows how waves of light (in red/orange, traveling from the top of image to the bottom) strike a layer of nanoshells and how the light resonates within the shell

Feb 8, 2012

Nanoshell whispering galleries improve thin solar panels

Energy, Materials

Feb 3, 2012

Stanford engineers weld nanowires with light

A computer-generated cross section of the polymer-coated carbon nanotube. The polymer shell (blue) wraps around a semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube (red). | Illustration: Francois Gygi

Nov 17, 2011

Sorting out the nanotubes, for better electronics

Electronics & Networking, Materials

The sensor is stretchy in all directions and then rebounds to the original shape. Photo: Steve Fyffe

Oct 24, 2011

Stanford researchers build transparent, super-stretchy skin-like sensor

Electronics & Networking, Materials

A scanning electron microscope photo of hollow carbon nanofiber-encapsulated sulfur tubes, at the heart of a new battery design. | Photo: Wesley Guangyuan Zheng / Materials Science and Engineering

Oct 3, 2011

Sulfur in hollow nanofibers overcomes challenges of lithium-ion battery design

Energy, Materials

Stanford engineers dance with plasmonics to yield new direction for thin, inexpensive solar cells.

Feb 1, 2011

Plasmonics

Aug 1, 2009

More efficient solar panels, circuits could arise from optimizing use of light-absorbing nanowires

Energy, Materials

Oct 7, 2008

Nanotechnology research could take the cost out of catalysis

Sep 4, 2006

Small scale of transistors calls for revival of a silicon ‘rival’