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Metal-organic frameworks become flexible

Researchers have used experiments and simulations to find out by what means MOFs can be rendered flexible and why: they tricked the system by using clever chemical manipulations to enable a variety of energetically similar arrangements in the crystalline order.

Nov 17th, 2020

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Highly sensitive detection of circularly polarized light without a filter

Scientists have developed a photodiode using a crystalline film composed of lead perovskite compounds with organic chiral molecules to detect circularly polarized light without a filter. It is expected as a technology for visualization of the invisible change of object surfaces such as stress intensity and distribution.

Nov 16th, 2020

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It's what on the inside that counts

Sometimes, the inside of a material can determine what happens on the outside. A team of physicists has devised a new way to make use of this general truth, in particular in systems that do not conserve energy.

Nov 16th, 2020

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Novel glass materials made from MOFs and inorganic components

Researchers succeeded in creating a new class of hybrid glass materials that combine organic and inorganic components. To do this, the scientists use special material combinations in which chemical bonds between organometallic and inorganic glasses can be generated.

Nov 16th, 2020

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Scientists discover new family of quasiparticles in graphene-based materials

Scientists reveal a phenomenon that is 'radically different from textbook physics' and this work has led to the discovery and characterisation of a new family of quasiparticles found in graphene-based materials. Called Brown-Zak fermions these extraordinary particles have the potential to achieve the Holy Grail of 2D materials by having ultra-high frequency transistors which can in turn produce a new generation of superfast electronic devices.

Nov 13th, 2020

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