A Princeton-led team of physicists have discovered that, under certain conditions, interacting electrons can create what are called “topological quantum states,” which, has implications for…
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An electrical current excites the superposition of two magnons with linear polarization (indicated by the red and blue arrows). Subsequently, energy is transported through the…
The schematic structure of the tandem solar cell stack in 3D. Credit: Eike Koehnen/HZB The current world record tandem solar cell provided stable performance for…
A team of MIT researchers has sent a panel of passive smart fabric samples to the International Space Station for a year to help determine…
A solution to the growing clean drinking water availability problem is direct solar steam generation technology, which can remove harmful soluble pollutants from water. Credit:…
Scientists at The University of Tokyo use computer simulations to model the effects of elemental composition on the glass-forming ability of metallic mixtures, which may…
KAUST researchers have developed a durable “electronic skin” that can mimic natural functions of human skin, such as sensing temperature and touch. Credit: © 2020…
A proposed future society. Credit: Tohoku University The future could hold portable and wearable sensors for detecting viruses and bacteria in the surrounding environment. But…
Three physicists in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, together with their colleagues from the Southern University of Science…
(A) “Portrait of a Bearded Man” (Walters Art Museum #32.6), dated c. 170-180 CE from Roman Imperial Egypt; (B) The portrait under ultraviolet light. The…
Researchers found a way to create and control the direction and periodicity of the oxygen-vacancy layers in oxynitride crystals at a temperature as low as…
In a new realm of materials, PhD student Thanh Nguyen uses neutrons to hunt for exotic properties that could power real-world applications. Thanh Nguyen is…
The RMIT team’s pictures showed that the regular diamonds only form in the middle of these Lonsdaleite veins under this new method developed by the…
CASH that combines machine learning, robotics, and big data demonstrates the tremendous potential in materials science. It is only through coevolution with such technologies that…
Using fluorescence to demonstrate how particles bind differently to different types of materials. Credit: Morgan Alexander Some polymers can resist bacteria; can they be designed…
Pictural representation of the molecule-based magnet and its magnetic properties. Credit: Rodolphe Clérac Magnets are to be found everywhere in our daily lives, whether in…
Based on different commercially available raw materials (e.g., TiO2-mica, Fe2O3-mica), a variety of all-natural bioinspired structural materials with different colors can be fabricated. Credit: GUAN…
In their research, the researchers also demonstrated the peculiarity of a new type of “Bad metals,” called “Hund’s metals,” important for a class of iron-based…
A person wears an “electronic skin” device on the wrist. Credit: Chuanqian Shi Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing a wearable electronic…
Members of the NTU research team include Dr. Long Yi (left), Senior Lecturer at the School of Materials Science & Engineering, and PhD student Wang…