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Researchers develop a sensor to make hydrogen visible

Researchers have succeeded in making invisible hydrogen gas visible to the naked eye in order to prevent the risk of fires and explosions. The key to their research is what is known as supraparticles, tiny particles that change colour as soon as they come near hydrogen.

Mar 21st, 2022

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Biomolecular building blocks gripped by laser

Scientists have managed for the first time to strongly align a relatively complex structure - the biomolecule indole - without the presence of a laser field. In the future, it should also be possible to use the new method on other complex molecules such as amino acids, neurotransmitters or vitamins, and possibly even entire proteins.

Mar 19th, 2022

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Are 2D interfaces really completely flat?

Atomically thin sheets are not necessarily uniform. They can be subject to mechanical deformation that result in defects, such as bubbles and wrinkles that occur during exfoliation and transfer. This lack of perfect flatness of individual layers forming a van der Waals heterostructure has implications for interface properties, such as those formed by metal contacts or insulating layers.

Mar 18th, 2022

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Magnet-free chiral nanowires for spintronic devices

Researchers demonstrate the all-electrical generation, manipulation, and detection of spin polarization in chiral single-crystalline Tellurium nanowires. The results pave the way for the development of magnet-free chirality-based spintronic devices.

Mar 18th, 2022

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Paving the way to tailor-made carbon nanomaterials

To better understand how carbon nanomaterials could be tailor-made and how their formation impacts shock phenomena such as detonation, scientists conducted machine-learning-driven atomistic simulations to provide insight into the fundamental processes controlling the formation of nanocarbon materials, which could serve as a design tool, help guide experimental efforts and enable more accurate energetic materials modeling.

Mar 17th, 2022

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