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Light derails electrons through graphene (w/video)

Researchers report on experimentally achieving for the first time the bending of electrons in bilayer graphene with the use of light.

March 24, 2022 Read more

Printing circuits on rare nanomagnets puts a new spin on computing

Theoretical models describing 'spin glasses' are broadly used in other complex systems, including brain function and stock-market dynamics.

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Pivotal battery discovery could impact transportation and the grid

Researchers uncover new avenue for overcoming the performance decline that occurs with repeated charge-discharge cycling in the cathodes of next generation batteries.

March 24, 2022 Read more

Solar cell also generates electricity from raindrops on rainy days

Researchers have designed a a raindrop solar cell by integrating a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) and perovskite solar cells to harvest raindrop energy and solar energy efficiently to provide a distributed energy source.

March 24, 2022 Read more

Optical nanoscopy to need fewer photons with nonlinear response

Scientists theorized that by doubling the gradient, they would increase the precision of optical nanoscopy by a factor of two or decrease the number of photons needed by a factor of four.

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Decoding a material's 'memory'

New research details the relationship between a disordered material's individual particle arrangement and how it reacts to external stressors. The study also found that these materials have 'memory' that can be used to predict how and when they will flow.

March 24, 2022 Read more

A new class of materials for nanopatterning

Recent research demonstrates how a new class of polymers can produce small, precise patterns on the nanometer scale, with future implications for large-scale computer chip fabrication.

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Quantum optics offers topological matter even more protection

Quantum light can help create longer lasting quantum states useful for information processing.

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Getting warmer: Improving heat flux modeling

Researchers use a computer simulation to model to flow of heat at the surface of a solid-liquid interface with atomic resolution, which may help in the development of novel nanoscale manufacturing methods.

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Revamped design could take powerful biological computers from the test tube to the cell

Researchers have developed long-lived biological computers that could potentially persist inside cells. They forgo the traditional DNA-based approach, opting instead to use the nucleic acid RNA to build computers.

March 23, 2022 Read more

A stretchy display for shapable electronics

After discovering a groundbreaking way to create an elastic light-emitting polymer, chemical engineers have developed high-brightness, stretchy color displays.

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Quantum sensors: Measuring even more precisely

Physicists have designed the first programmable quantum sensor, and tested it in the laboratory. The innovative method promises quantum sensors whose precision reaches close to the limit set by the laws of nature.

March 23, 2022 Read more

Don't underestimate undulating graphene

Scientists put forth the idea that growing atom-thick graphene on a gently textured surface creates peaks and valleys in the sheets that turn them into 'pseudo-electromagnetic' devices.

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Feeding silkworms carbon dots to produce brightly fluorescent silk

Although the natural domestic silkworm's (Bombyx mori) silk has almost no fluorescence, researchers have now managed to get silkworms to produce brightly fluorescent silk.

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Growing uniformly sized nanodiamonds

Scientists report a method to grow ultra-uniform nanodiamonds without the need for explosives. The technique also could be used to add beneficial single-atom defects in otherwise perfect crystals.

March 23, 2022 Read more

Biodegradable implant could help doctors monitor brain chemistry

A wireless, biodegradable sensor could offer doctors a way to monitor changes in brain chemistry without requiring a second operation to remove the implant, according to an international team of researchers.

March 23, 2022 Read more