New quantum materials with unique properties
A new EU project focuses on quantum materials, whose properties can be modified significantly by elastic deformation.
Jun 23rd, 2020
Read moreA new EU project focuses on quantum materials, whose properties can be modified significantly by elastic deformation.
Jun 23rd, 2020
Read moreResearchers have managed to manipulate and track the movement of individual magnetic vortices called skyrmions, which have been touted as strong candidates to act as information carriers in next-generation storage devices and as synapses for neuromorphic computing.
Jun 23rd, 2020
Read moreResearchers report that the twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenide WSe2 enables the realization of exotic correlated phenomena, including high-Tc superconductivity and correlated insulators, in a controlled manner and without the geometrical restriction found in twisted bilayer graphene.
Jun 23rd, 2020
Read moreScientists have managed to drive a prototypical antiferromagnet into a new magnetic state using terahertz frequency light.
Jun 23rd, 2020
Read moreTraditional fluorescent dyes to examine bacteria viability are toxic and suffer poor photostability - but using the Vortex Fluidic Device has enabled the preparation of a new generation of aggregation-induced emission dye luminogens using graphene oxide.
Jun 23rd, 2020
Read moreLight interacts with itself to form self-sustaining waves in an artificial topological material.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreEngineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in fluorocarbons, a group of synthetic materials that includes persistent environmental pollutants.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read more'Janus' nanorods convert light to heat that can destroy pollutants.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreResearchers report that a fabrication technique may offer a path toward mastering the often chaotic flow of heat carriers at the nanoscale in silicon and other semiconductors.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreResearchers create first efficient 2D material photodetector for telecom wavelengths.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreWhen hit with light, the film-thin materials come alive -- bending, rotating and even crawling on surfaces.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreResearchers have created a Bose-Einstein condensate with record speed, creating the fascinating phase of matter in about 100 femtoseconds.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreElectrons in chiral crystals, solid-state materials with definite handedness, can behave in unexpected ways. An interdisciplinary research team has realized now a theoretically predicted peculiar electronic state in a chiral compound, PtGa, from the class of topological materials.
Jun 22nd, 2020
Read moreThe particles will be produced using 3D-bioprinting, enabling them to be released at specified intervals, instead of a continuous slow release.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read moreInteractions between hollow silica nanocubes suspended in a solution can be adjusted by varying the concentration of polymer molecules added to the mixture.
Jun 19th, 2020
Read moreThe new study focuses on a production method, based around mechanical abrasion, where multilayer structures are formed through directly abrading different Van der Waals material powders directly on top of one another.
Jun 19th, 2020
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