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, ...

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 ...

A type of paper that has the thermal properties of glass but is flexible, foldable and optically transparent has been fabricated by scientists in Japan (Adv. Mater. 21, 1595–1598; 2009). The key to ...

If you’re like me, you probably always worry about foreign matter entering your drink, whether it’s a Junebug or a dose of strychnine from one of the many, many people out to get you. That’s why I ...

Xuan paper, known as one of the Four Treasures of the Study, is an important carrier for traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting art, and it is also a precious cultural heritage of the Chinese ...