Jessica Gorman's Articles
- NewsA surprisingly simple, new technique could create better coatings for everything from medical implants to ship hulls.
- NewsResearchers have developed a new, safer type of electrode for lithium batteries.
- NewsAdding exotic substances called quasicrystals to polymers creates nonabrasive hard materials, which could soon serve as coatings in machine parts.
- NewsA new technique can spin individual nanotubes into durable ribbons and threads visible to the naked eye.
- NewsTwo research teams have created stable carbon nanotubes with the smallest diameter that scientists believe is physically possible, at just 0.4 nanometer across.
- FeatureChemistry and materials science step up to preserve history, old and new.
- NewsA team of researchers is developing highly sensitive acoustic sensors using ordered arrays of carbon nanotubes, which act much like the rodlike stereocilia of the inner ear.
- FeatureStriving for designer substances that build themselves from individual molecules.
- NewsA new device can detect a single potato that's infected with bacterial soft rot while buried deep in a storage crate with hundreds of healthy tubers.
- NewsScientists have devised a method for identifying cocaine's geographical origin by determining the chemical signatures of five distinct coca-growing regions in the Andes.