Transforming pictures into holograms usually requires a plethora of different materials, lenses and lots of time. But now, a startup run by MIT researchers has made the process much easier with a new ...

Using a solid-state process, researchers have found a way to transform a carbon nanotube "forest" into strong, ultrathin, transparent carbon nanotube sheets or ribbons with exceptional mechanical and ...

Cellulose treatment enables creation of optically transparent paper for use a substrate. We cannot see through ordinary paper because it’s constituent micrometer sized cellulose fibers and large ...

They're soft, strong, and very, very long. Large, transparent sheets of carbon nanotubes can now be produced at lightning speed. The new technique should allow the nanotubes to be used in commercial ...

One-atom-thick graphene, with its high electronic conductivity, is a promising material for making the transparent electrodes needed in solar cells and displays. However, when researchers grow large ...

The single-beam mirage effect, also known as photothermal deflection, is studied using a free-standing, highly aligned carbon nanotube aerogel sheet as the heat source. The extremely low thermal ...