Tag: Materials

Rice University researchers find 'paradox' in ground-state bilayersCredit: Yakobson Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 15, 2020) - Mixing and ...

Pitt engineer maintains a laser focus to grow nanocarbons on flexible devices

Mostafa Bedewy will use a $240K NSF award to study a new scalable laser patterning process for directly growing tailored ...

International summer school-conference ‘Advanced Problems In Mechanics’

Conference 'Advanced Problems in Mechanics' (APM-online) will be held onlineCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University From June 21 to ...

Research reveals how material defects influence melting process

Credit: Ling Lab/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In 1972, physicists J. Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless published a groundbreaking theory ...

Stanford researchers develop artificial synapse that works with living cells

Credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford News Service In 2017, Stanford University researchers presented a new device that mimics the brain's efficient and ...

A salt solution toward better bioelectronics

Discovery of graphene switch

Credit: JAIST Researchers at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have successfully measured the current-voltage curve of graphene ...

Minimizing thermal conductivity of crystalline material with optimal nanostructure

June 12, 2020

Towards application of materials informatics to development of thermal functional materialsCredit: The University of Tokyo Professor Junichiro Shiomi et al. ...

Lightning in a (nano)bottle: new supercapacitor opens door to better wearable electronics

Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Researchers from Skoltech, Aalto University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have designed a high-performance, low-cost, ...

Freshly printed magnets

Metal 3D laser printingCredit: Empa It looks quite inconspicuous to the casual beholder, hardly like groundbreaking innovation: a small metallic ...

Twisted microfiber’s network responses to water vapor

Credit: JAIST Researchers at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST): graduate student Kulisara Budpud, Assoc. Prof. Kosuke Okeyoshi, ...

Plastic in the deep sea: Virtually unaltered after a quarter of a century

First long-term study on plastic degradation in a water depth of more than 4000 meterCredit: Photo: ROV Team/GEOMAR Plastic products ...

Cascade sets the stage for superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Princeton-led study finds that superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene emerges from a highly interacting state of electronsCredit: Image by ...

Scientists apply ‘twistronics’ to light propagation and make a breakthrough discovery