Rotation of electron spins in superconductors of atomic-scale thickness may be used to make qubits for quantum computing. Superconductivity is known to be easily destroyed…
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Researchers have developed a new way to test long-lasting perovskite formulations that could be used for solar cells. The high-throughput automated degradation test system monitors…
Research published in Science Advances has found that large spin-orbit coupling and strong electronic correlations in a system of uranium-cobalt-aluminum doped with ruthenium resulted in…
Two layers of a 2D-material are stacked, which influences the properties of the material. Credit: Erik Zumalt, Lukas Linhart 2D materials have triggered a boom…
“Flower-like” microstructures forming upon a nanoporous glass monolith featuring 31nm-diameter pores.Credit: Lehigh University | Thamma, Kowal, Falk, Jain Proteins choreograph the infinitesimal dance of living…
The crystal structure of a carbon bilayer. The purple outer layer and blue inner layer each have a similar arrangement of carbon atoms but are…
The upper part shows a cold spray copper coating, with very visible vortex-like structures twirling around an aluminum substrate in the bottom part (EBSD image).…
New research shows that the movement in liquid crystals can be harnessed and directed, a step toward developing autonomous materials that can sense inputs, amplify…
These images of “islands” of gold atoms deposited on a layer of two-dimensional molybdenum sulfide were produced by two different modes, using a new scanning…
The material behaves as if magnetic monopoles were present. Credit: TU Wien Surprise in solid-state physics: The Hall effect, which normally requires magnetic fields, can…
Formation of moiré pattern by two honeycomb lattices. Credit: Microwave Nano-Electronics Lab, UC Riverside UC Riverside-led study observed unexpected insulating phases by placing electrons on…
Rice University engineers designed and built windowpanes that redirect sunlight or illumination from indoors to edge-band solar cells. The central layer is a conjugated polymer…
Periodic pattern consisting of magnons is formed at room temperature. A team of researchers has succeeded in creating a micrometer-sized space-time crystal consisting of magnons…
Scientists used both computers and microscopes to come up with a way to potentially boost the performance of devices to use the sun to split…
A team of researchers designed and manufactured a new sodium-ion conductor for solid-state sodium-ion batteries that is stable when incorporated into higher-voltage oxide cathodes. This…
Sandia National Laboratories researchers in the Mechanics of Materials department utilize the new fracture testing hangers for traditional interlaminar composite fracture testing as well as…
The nanocellulose fibers created by the bacteria are about a thousand times thinner than the width of a human hair. Credit: Luiz Greca Technique creates…
Levitation of a magnet on top of a superconductor. Credit: Jubobroff, Fbouquet, LPS CC BY-SA 3.0 A new theory that could explain how unconventional superconductivity…
Artist’s representation of the nanoscopic structure of a new ferroelectric material developed by MIT researchers and colleagues. Blue and gold dots represent the boron and…
Schematic of a valley-spiral in magnetically encapsulated twisted bilayer graphene. Credit: Jose Lado By combining ferromagnets and two rotated layers of graphene, researchers open up…