Producing electricity at estuaries using light and osmosis
Credit: istock Most renewable power technologies are weather dependent. Wind farms can only operate when there's a breeze, and solar ...
Tag: Superconductors/Semiconductors
Data science helps engineers discover new materials for solar cells and LEDs
Credit: Yang lab/Energy & Environmental Science Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a high-throughput computational method ...
Scientists break record for highest-temperature superconductor
Experiment produces new material that can conduct electricity perfectlyCredit: Courtesy of Drozdov et al. University of Chicago scientists are part ...
Strain enables new applications of 2D materials
Scientists are pleased to find that the application of mechanical strain appears to manipulate the conductivity of low-dimensional materials, including ...
Brookhaven’s Mircea Cotlet named a Battelle “Inventor of the Year”
Award recognizes his research on light-matter interactions in hybrid nanomaterialsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Materials scientist Mircea Cotlet of the ...
Original kilogram replaced — new International System of Units (SI) entered into force
Credit: IKZ In addition to Ampere, Kelvin, Mol and Co., the kilogram also is now defined by a natural constant. ...
Scientists at DGIST develop polariton nano-laser operating at room temperature
Credit: ©DGIST A room temperature polariton nano-laser has been demonstrated, providing the crucial path of related research such as polariton ...
UBC researchers create washable sensor that can be woven into materials
Device will impact composites manufacturing and health-monitoring industriesCredit: UBCO Okanagan Forget the smart watch. Bring on the smart shirt. Researchers ...
Ultra-clean fabrication platform produces nearly ideal 2D transistors
Columbia engineers develop a clean, damage-free fabrication process that creates pristine transistors made from 2D material stacksCredit: Min Sup Choi/Columbia ...
Breakthrough in new material to harness solar power could transform energy
The ultra-high efficiency material called a tandem perovskite solar cell is being developed to help solve the world energy crisis.Credit: ...
Manipulating superconductivity using a ‘mechanic’ and an ‘electrician’
Credit: NINS/IMS In the strongly correlated materials such as cuprate high-temperature superconductors, superconductivity can be controlled either by changing the ...
2D insulators with ferromagnetism are rare; researchers just identified a new one
Credit: Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy Collaborating scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, ...
A dance of two: Tailoring interactions between remote fluids of excitons
Credit: Paulo V. Santos, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Ronen Rapaport An international collaboration involving European, Israeli, and US scientists realize for ...
Computing faster with quasi-particles
Credit: Picture: Ewelina Hankiewicz Majorana particles are very peculiar members of the family of elementary particles. First predicted in 1937 ...
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