Researchers develop material capable of being invisible or reflective
Researchers develop material capable of being invisible or reflective in IR spectrumCredit: ITMO.News (news.itmo.ru) Modern optical devices require constant tuning ...
Tag: Materials
Team of Canadian and Italian researchers breaking new ground in materials science
Discovery could greatly increase performances of electronicsCredit: McGill-INRS-Lakehead A study by a team of researchers from Canada and Italy recently ...
Breakthrough in research on production of 2D crystals with excellent optical properties
Credit: Source: UW Physics, A. Bogucki, W. Pacuski For the first time, monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides with excellent optical ...
Iron nanorobots go undercover
Credit: © 2020 KAUST Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance--their location and migration noninvasively tracked in ...
Physicist to study bacteria undergoing photosynthesis
Nathaniel Gabor's lab develops experiments to bridge vastly different scales of size, energy, and complexityCredit: UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- ...
Scientists use light to accelerate supercurrents, access forbidden light, quantum world
Credit: Image courtesy of Jigang Wang/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Scientists are using light waves to accelerate supercurrents and ...
Electrons break rotational symmetry in exotic low-temp superconductor
Scientists previously observed this peculiar behavior in other materials whose ability to conduct electricity without energy loss cannot be explained ...
Three-dimensional chessboards
Researchers at Osaka University develop liquid-phase 3D-patterning to create nanocellulose films aligned along multiple axes within the same sheet. This ...
A spreadable interlayer could make solid state batteries more stable
Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Solid state batteries are of great interest to the electric vehicle industry. Scientists at ...
Quantum Hall effect ‘reincarnated’ in 3D topological materials
2D order protects several entangled states that could be used in quantum computingCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (May 18, ...
Penn engineers develop first tunable, chip-based ‘vortex microlaser’ and detector
Encoding information in twisting beams of light could break bandwidth bottleneck in optical communicationsCredit: University of Pennsylvania As computers get ...
Probing materials at deep-Earth conditions to decipher Earth’s evolutionary tale
Learning how liquid silicates behave at these extreme temperatures and pressures has been a longstanding challenge in the geosciences.Credit: Greg ...
Graphene-reinforced carbon fiber may lead to affordable, stronger car materials
Credit: Margaret Kowalik and Adri van Duin / Penn State A new way of creating carbon fibers -- which are ...
High hopes for new-age rubber
'Self-repairing' material has many industrial usesCredit: Flinders University Imagine a self-repairing rubber, or super-adhesive made entirely from waste materials. It ...
Superconductors with ‘zeitgeist’ — When materials differentiate between past and future
Credit: Copyright: Hans-Henning Klauss What happened yesterday and what will happen tomorrow are usually two different and quite independent matters. ...
Efficient, ‘green’ quantum-dot solar cells exploit defects
Quantum-dot approach shows promise for a new type of toxic-element-free, inexpensive, defect-tolerant solar cellsCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory Novel quantum ...
Scientists break the link between a quantum material’s spin and orbital states
The advance opens a path toward a new generation of logic and memory devices based on orbitronics that could be ...
Big data and synthetic chemistry could fight climate change and pollution
University of South Carolina chemists look to the future of materials designCredit: University of South Carolina COLUMBIA, S.C. -- May ...
Using big data to design gas separation membranes
Columbia engineers apply machine learning techniques to narrow down and speed up the development of new materials for removing CO2 ...
Observation of intervalley transitions can boost valleytronic science and technology
UC Riverside-led research shows these transitions can emit lightCredit: Erfu Liu, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An international research team ...
