Scientists have taken inspiration from the biomimicry of butterfly wings and peacock feathers to develop an innovative opal-like material that could be the cornerstone of next generation smart sensors.
May 19th, 2020
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Researchers developed a wearable, non invasive Vitamin C sensor that could provide a new, highly personalized option for users to track their daily nutritional intake and dietary adherence.
May 18th, 2020
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Encoding information in twisting beams of light could break bandwidth bottleneck in optical communications.
May 18th, 2020
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2D order protects several entangled states that could be used in quantum computing.
May 18th, 2020
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A new way of creating carbon fibers -- which are typically expensive to make -- could one day lead to using these lightweight, high-strength materials to improve safety and reduce the cost of producing cars.
May 18th, 2020
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Scientists have demonstrated how to create, using a femtosecond laser, an all-optical switch based on a metal-organic framework which can be synthesized in vitro and is usually used in chemistry for gas absorption.
May 18th, 2020
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Tantalum disulfide is a mysterious material. According to textbook theory, it should be a conducting metal, but in the real world it acts like an insulator. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers have taken a high-resolution look at the structure of the material, revealing why it demonstrates this unintuitive behavior.
May 18th, 2020
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Highly efficient charge-to-spin interconversion in graphene heterostructures.
May 18th, 2020
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Imagine a self-repairing rubber, or super-adhesive made entirely from waste materials. It sounds like science fiction, but researchers have discovered a new kind of rubber and catalyst that together can be used with low energy consumption to make flexible, repairable, sustainable objects - including car tires.
May 18th, 2020
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Researchers demonstrated a perfect novel optical vortex with controllable impulse ring profile based on Circular Dammann Gratings.
May 18th, 2020
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Researchers developed a simple approach for controlling the otherwise random formation of cracks in flexible thin-film conductors, greatly increasing the durability of flexible electrodes and transistors against bending and folding.
May 18th, 2020
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Scientists have developed a new approach to the underlying physics of semiconductors to engineer nano-scale transistors hit the limits of miniaturization at the atomic level.
May 18th, 2020
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An international research team published a review of atomically-thin 'high temperature' superconductors finds that each has a common driving mechanism: interfaces.
May 18th, 2020
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Researchers have created a whole new library of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials, christened 'ic-2D', to denote a class of materials based on self-intercalation of native atoms into the gap between the layers of crystals.
May 18th, 2020
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The advance opens a path toward a new generation of logic and memory devices based on orbitronics that could be 10,000 times faster than today's.
May 15th, 2020
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Researchers build modular bridge design for nanoscale photonic chip.
May 15th, 2020
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