One of the great things about the Gearing Up challenge of the 2023 Hackaday Prize is that it lets you discover tools that you don’t encounter every day. We had never given much thought to spin coaters ...

Researchers in China believe that spin-casting polymer latex onto glass is an effective way to mass-produce antireflective coatings. Spin-casting polymer latex onto glass is a convenient and ...

One of the great things about the Gearing Up challenge of the 2023 Hackaday Prize is that it lets you discover tools that you don’t encounter every day. We had never given much thought to spin coaters ...

An inexpensive liquid-phase deposition method can form molecularly ordered films of various materials, a feat usually carried out commercially via costly vapor deposition techniques (Science 2019, DOI ...

IBM scientists claim to have found a way to make extraordinarily thin films of semiconducting materials that give electrical charges about 10 times the mobility than had been reported for all other ...

Fascinated by the beauty of water rolling off a lotus leaf, a team of chemical engineers has now created a similar superhydrophobic coating that can be used to save steel from rusting. The team from ...

The self-assembly of ligand-stabilized nanoparticles has been a subject of scientific interest for several decades. These nanoparticles possess extraordinary mechanical, electrical, and optical ...

Spin-coated films, such as photoresists for lithography or perovskite films for solar cells, are either amorphous or polycrystalline. We show that epitaxial films of inorganic materials such as cesium ...