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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Theoretical researchers have found a way to make quantum sensors exponentially more sensitive by harnessing a unique physics phenomenon.
Nov 16th, 2020
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Scientists have reported a new optical imaging technology, using a glass side covered with gold nanodiscs that allows them to monitor changes in the transmission of light and determine the characteristics of nanoparticles as small as 25 nanometers in diameter.
Nov 16th, 2020
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Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to detect the dynamics of light on such a small scale with high temporal resolution.
Nov 16th, 2020
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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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Scientists have not only been able to explain how nanostructures in thermoelectric materials can improve energy efficiency but they also propose a commercially more attractive way to manufacture nanostructured thermoelectric materials, increasing the chances for mass-production of thermoelectric energy.
Nov 16th, 2020
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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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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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Researchers have achieved a nearly 90% efficiency converting light energy into surface waves on graphene. They relied on a laser-like energy conversion scheme and collective resonances.
Nov 16th, 2020
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Scientists have developed a scalable electrochemical exfoliation method to synthesise two-dimensional (2D) superconducting material for use in printing technologies.
Nov 16th, 2020
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A new project has been set up to develop an immunologic-based treatment strategy where cancer cells are reprogrammed to become 'visible' to the patient's immune system.
Nov 13th, 2020
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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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Researchers have demonstrated light transport-assisted information processing by creating a pearl spectrometer.
Nov 13th, 2020
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Scientists explore how symmetrically coupled light and matter produce a new combined state of light and electrons - a state which could be utilized in the design of new materials.
Nov 12th, 2020
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Researchers have developed a method to fabricate a one-dimensional array of individual molecules and to precisely control its electronic structure.
Nov 12th, 2020
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Researchers have succeeded in creating low-noise states at wavelengths between 700 and 800 nanometres, i.e. close to the visible red range. This would, for example, enable coupling to other photonic systems.
Nov 12th, 2020
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