A team at the University of Manchester has produced yarns based on thin-film electroluminescent technology that emit light when powered by a battery. "To the best of our knowledge this is a new ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Nanoscale materials like quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, graphene, or nanowires, have intriguing properties, but unless they can be assembled in to larger structures it is ...

Behold "twistron," a new kind of yarn that converts movement into an impressive amount of electrical current. According to research published today in Science (abstract), twistron is made by spinning ...