On-chip optical isolators for 780 nm and 1550 nm wavelengths, fabricated in lithium niobate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Credit: Ogulcan Orsel Light offers…
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Using the hydrogel tablet to purify water requires zero energy input and doesn’t create harmful byproducts. Credit: The University of Texas at Austin As much…
Researchers at MIT and BASF have developed a data-driven system that accelerates the process of discovering new 3D printing materials that have multiple mechanical properties.…
If the properties of materials can be reliably predicted, then the process of developing new products for a huge range of industries can be streamlined…
Depiction of the application of organic semiconductor nanotubes in artificial muscle. Credit: Artwork courtesy of Mohammad Reza Abidian Actuator Discovery Outperforms Existing Technology University of…
Topological isolator as a multiplexer. Credit: Zhe Zhang / EPFL 2021 EPFL scientists have developed a topology-based method that forces microwave photons to travel along…
Shiny nacre of Abalone washed ashore. Strongest and toughest glass known developed by McGill University scientists. Scientists from McGill University develop stronger and tougher glass,…
In the singlet exciton fission process, a singlet exciton (blue) is created upon absorbing light and then splits into two triplets (red) on ultrafast timescales.…
Low-dimensional uniform manifold approximation projection showing symmetry-aware image similarity from a database of greater than 25,000 piezoresponse force microscopy images. Credit: Joshua Agar/Lehigh University A…
Scientists performed transmission electron microscopy and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials and National Synchrotron Light Source II to characterize…
UCLA-designed self-powered, stretchable, waterproof magnetoelastic generator for bioelectronics. Credit: Jun Chen/UCLA A team of bioengineers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has invented a…
Each human being uses, on average, 30 kg of plastic per year. Given that global life expectancy currently stands at approximately 70 years, each person…
An MIT team has fabricated a hydrogel-based material that mimics the structure of the lobster’s underbelly, the toughest known hydrogel found in nature. The membrane’s…
A laser heats up ultra-thin bars of silicon. Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA A team of physicists at CU Boulder has solved the mystery behind a perplexing…
The new artificial intelligence tool has already led to the discovery of four new materials. Researchers at the University of Liverpool have created a collaborative…
Understanding how electrons move in 2-D layered material systems could lead to advances in quantum computingPerforming computation using quantum-mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement.”>quantum…
Variation on the cover art of the Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics issue featuring the study reported in this story, both of the artworks by the…
The star-like ‘kagome’ molecular structure of the 2D metal-organic material results in strong electronic interactions and non-trivial magnetic properties (left: STM image, right: non-contact AFM).…
Drinking straws are single use plastic products which will be subjected to a Europe-wide sales ban from 2021 onwards. This is stated in EU Directive…
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, et al. induced substantial motion of oxide ions within perovskite crystals…