Tag: Materials

March 31, 2021

Special heat treatment improves novel magnetic materialCredit: HZDR/Juniks Skyrmions - tiny magnetic vortices - are considered promising candidates for tomorrow's ...

A successful phonon calculation within the Quantum Monte Carlo framework

March 31, 2021

Scientists expand the scope of the quantum Monte Carlo framework by reducing the error in calculation of atomic forces in ...

An organic material for the next generation of HVAC technologies

Texas A&M researchers have enhanced the dehumidification efficiency of a polymer that could help develop more energy-efficient systems with a ...

Why are optical refractive indices so small?

Credit: ICFO Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon cover, voted the greatest classical rock album of all time, intended ...

Materials scientists use frontal polymerization to mimic biology, reimagine manufacturing

Credit: Image courtesy the Autonomous Materials Systems Group, Beckman Institute A simple plastic water bottle isn't so simple when it ...

The egg in the X-ray beam

Innovative time-resolved method reveals network formation by and dynamics of proteinsCredit: Credit: DESY, Gesine Born A team of scientists has ...

Water splitting for solar energy conversion

Credit: Cited from Wang, Z., Luo, Y., Hisatomi, T. et al. Sequential cocatalyst decoration on BaTaO2N towards highly-active Z-scheme water ...

Discovery of a mechanism for making superconductors more resistant to magnetic fields

Rotation of electron spins in superconductors of atomic-scale thickness may be used to make qubits for quantum computingCredit: NIMS Superconductivity ...

faster imaging in rubber x-ray CT imaging helps tires become smarter and more efficient

Credit: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd (SRI) and Tohoku University teamed up to increase the speed of ...

Breaking records like baking bread

Standing out: Unusual magnetic transition in perovskite oxide can help boost spintronics

Credit: Nature Communications Transition metal perovskites oxides exhibit several desirable properties, including high-temperature superconductivity and electrocatalysis. Now, scientists at Tokyo ...

Electromagnetic fields of nanostructures visualized in 3D for the first time

Scientists from Graz, Austria, succeeded for the first time in visualizing temporal distortions of the atomic lattice on the surface ...

An industrially viable competitor to silicon-based solar cells is in the works

Researchers from Kanazawa University fabricated a highly efficient perovskite solar cell with nearly the energy conversion efficiency of commercial silicon-based ...

Deciphering the secrets of printed electronics