Atomic-scale magnetic patterns resembling a hedgehog's spikes could result in hard disks with massively larger capacities than today's devices, a new study suggests. The finding could help data centers keep up with the exponentially increasing demand for video and cloud data storage.
Dec 17th, 2021
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Chemists succeeded in synthesizing particularly complex mesocrystals with largely unknown chemical and physical properties and in shedding light on their structure.
Dec 17th, 2021
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Scientists have shown that they can manipulate single skyrmions - tiny magnetic vortices that could be used as computing bits in future ultra-dense information storage devices - using pulses of electric current, at room temperature.
Dec 17th, 2021
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Researchers have developed a novel nanoporous gating system that can precisely control and observe dynamic gating processes.
Dec 17th, 2021
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An AI framework enables scientists to improve a decades-old imaging technique.
Dec 17th, 2021
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An international research team has developed a material that, when coated on a glass window panel, can effectively self-adapt to heat or cool rooms across different climate zones in the world, helping to cut energy usage.
Dec 16th, 2021
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Researchers describe how nanodiamond-reinforced composite membranes can purify hydrogen from its humid mixtures, making the hydrogen generation processes vastly more efficient and cost-effective.
Dec 16th, 2021
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Researchers study the interaction between lithium atoms and barium ion isolated in ultrahigh vacuum and trapped using light traps.
Dec 16th, 2021
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This new work constitutes a proof of concept for graphene whisperitronic devices.
Dec 16th, 2021
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Researchers have discovered that negative capacitance could lower the energy used in electronics and computing, which represents 8% of global electricity demand.
Dec 16th, 2021
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The trade-off between carrier mobility and stability in amorphous oxide semiconductor-based thin film transistors (TFTs) has been finally overcome in an ingeniously fabricated indium tin zinc oxide TFT. This could pave the way for the design of display technologies that are cheaper than current silicon-based technologies.
Dec 16th, 2021
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New findings could help the design of industrially relevant quantum materials for sensing, computing and communication.
Dec 15th, 2021
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Scientists have successfully developed an algorithm to precisely and efficiently predict the potential energy state of individual molecules using quantum mechanical data.
Dec 15th, 2021
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Researchers have developed a new process for producing stable perovskite materials to create more efficient solar cells.
Dec 15th, 2021
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In a proof-of-concept study, researchers made fish-shaped microrobots that are guided with magnets to cancer cells, where a pH change triggers them to open their mouths and release their chemotherapy cargo.
Dec 15th, 2021
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Researchers have developed an interface approach to control the diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers in a way that allows direct translation to quantum devices.
Dec 15th, 2021
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