Materials scientists studying recharging fundamentals made an astonishing discovery that could open the door to better batteries, faster catalysts and other materials science leaps.
Jul 28th, 2020
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Scientists uncover the peculiar mechanism by which spin perturbations travel through a seemingly unpassable region of a quantum spin liquid system. This new insight may represent another building block in next-generation electronics and even quantum computers.
Jul 28th, 2020
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Findings open up possibilities for mechanical metamaterials to be used in soft robotics and medical devices.
Jul 27th, 2020
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Materials scientists are calling for a collective, global effort to fast-track the mass production of 2D materials like graphene and molybdenum disulfide.
Jul 27th, 2020
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A soft material that heals itself instantaneously is now reality. A team of scientists tune the nanostructure of a new stretchable material in such a way that it now entirely recovers its structure and properties at the blink of an eye after being cut or poked.
Jul 27th, 2020
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Researchers have combined optical and acoustic approaches and found that incorporating titanium atoms into barium hexaferrite leads to an unexpected substructure forming in the crystal lattice. The resulting material is promising for ultrafast computer memory applications.
Jul 27th, 2020
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Researchers create neurotransmitter-lipid hybrids that help ferry therapeutic drugs and gene editing proteins across the blood-brain barrier in mice.
Jul 27th, 2020
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The study assessed how the guts of species could protect against the bioaccumulation and toxicological effects of engineered nanomaterials.
Jul 27th, 2020
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New model explores the design space of twisted 2D materials.
Jul 27th, 2020
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Water molecules play an active role in facilitating the oxygen dissociation needed for the oxidation reaction.
Jul 27th, 2020
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Theoretical studies have suggested that 'particle density', or the number of particles in an area, can be utilized to develop a novel ratchet transportation with a 'static' electrical field.
Jul 27th, 2020
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Scientists demonstrate a synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy-based method by which the local temperatures of metal nanoparticles can be measured under microwaves.
Jul 27th, 2020
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When ultrafine magnetic particles are exposed to an external magnetic field, their magnetic core grows in a previously unexpected way.
Jul 27th, 2020
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Researchers overcame the natural restrictions by developing optical tweezers based on metamaterials - a synthetic material with specific properties that do not occur naturally. This was the first time that this kind of metamaterial had been used for single nanoparticle trapping.
Jul 27th, 2020
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New approach creates synthetic layered magnets with unprecedented level of control over their magnetic properties.
Jul 24th, 2020
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Resolving alloys' strength-ductility trade-off and thermal instability.
Jul 24th, 2020
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