Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Credit: by Li Chen, Wei Lin, Huiqiong Wang, Jinchai Li, Junyong Kang Deep ultraviolet (DUV) optoelectronic devices ( To understand ...

Optical shaping of polarization anisotropy in a laterally-coupled-quantum-dot dimer

Credit: by Kwangseuk Kyhm Coupled quantum dots can be an important building block in the development of scalable quantum devices ...

Black phosphorus-based van der Waals heterostructures for mid-infrared light-emission applications

Credit: by Xinrong Zong, Huamin Hu, Gang Ouyang, Jingwei Wang, Run Shi, Le Zhang, Qingsheng Zeng, Chao Zhu, Shouheng Chen, ...

Microscopy technique reveals nanoscale detail of coatings as they dry

In paper published in Scientific Reports, Lehigh University researchers studying in situ drying behavior of thin film coatings visualize interactions ...

T-ray camera speed boosted a hundred times over

Scientists are a step closer to developing a fast and cost effective camera that utilizes terahertz radiation, potentially opening the ...

Robust high-performance data storage through magnetic anisotropy

Credit: M. Bargheer/ Uni Potsdam In thermal equilibrium, iron-platinum (FePt) belongs to the class of invar materials, which hardly expand ...

Understanding the love-hate relationship of halide perovskites with the sun

New research by scientists at TU/e and universities in China and the US sheds light on the causes of perovskite ...

UQ researchers solve a 50-year-old enzyme mystery

Credit: The University of Queensland Advanced herbicides and treatments for infection may result from the unravelling of a 50-year-old mystery ...

Polarization of Br2 molecule in vanadium oxide cluster cavity and new alkane bromination

Credit: Kanazawa University Alkanes are major constituents of natural gas and oil, consisting of carbon and hydrogen atoms only. The ...

Liquid metal synthesis for better piezoelectrics: Atomically-thin tin-monosulfide

Potential materials for future wearable electronics and other motion-powered, energy-harvesting devicesCredit: FLEET RMIT-UNSW collaboration applies liquid-metal synthesis to piezoelectrics, advancing ...

An $18 million boost to materials science research at UC San Diego

Students and faculty will shape the nano- and bio- materials that will make life better, healthier and saferCredit: University of ...

Cherned up to the maximum

Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Niels Schröter In topological materials, electrons can display behaviour that is fundamentally different from that in 'conventional' ...

AI enables efficiencies in quantum information processing

Credit: U.S. Army image ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- A new machine learning framework could pave the way for small, ...

Cosmic cataclysm allows precise test of general relativity

Credit: Giovanni Ceribella/MAGIC Collaboration In 2019, the MAGIC telescopes detected the first Gamma Ray Burst at very high energies. This ...

Looking at linkers helps to join the dots

Liquid water is more than just H2O molecules

Credit: Skoltech Skoltech scientists in collaboration with researchers from the University of Stuttgart showed that the concentration of short-lived ions ...

UCLA-led team develops ways to keep buildings cool with improved super white paints

Credit: Jyotirmoy Mandal A research team led by UCLA materials scientists has demonstrated ways to make super white paint that ...

Fishing for a theory of emergent behavior

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba study the collective swimming of ayu fish and quantify the degree of group cohesion ...

Fine-tuning excited state of Ru(II)-photosensitizers for boosting CO2-to-CO conversion

Credit: ©Science China Press Solar-driven reduction of CO2 into energy-rich fuels, such as CO, HCOOH, and CH3OH, has been conceived ...

X-ray scattering shines light on protein folding