In the past, vellum described a writing surface made from animal hides. The vellum was sometimes slightly transparent, and that use of the term remains in use today. Vellum, a favorite paper among ...

Computing Transparent transistors printed on transparent paper: Flexible, green computers incoming Researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park have printed transparent transistors on ...

To make light-weight, inexpensive electronics using renewable materials, scientists have turned to a technology that is almost 2,000 years old: paper. In an important step toward paper-based devices, ...

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 ...

A team of scientists have developed a way to print on paper using light instead of ink. This new printing method could be used by large-scale printers such as newspapers and could both save money and ...

It looks like a relative breakthrough has been made where materials sciences and nanotechnology are concerned. Scientist Liangbing Hu, stationed at the University of Maryland, turned to one of the ...