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- Researchers Discover New Evidence Of Superconductivity At Near Room Temperature 06/05/2019 Superconductivity is the lack of electrical resistance and is observed in many materials when they are cooled below a critical temperature.
- Light Allows Objects To Levitate 06/05/2019 Researchers at Caltech have designed a way to levitate and propel objects using only light, by creating specific nanoscale patterning on the objects' surfaces.
- Advancing Ultrafast Cluster Electronics 06/05/2019 Hokkaido University researchers have developed a computational method that can predict how clusters of molecules behave and interact over time, providing critical insight for future electronics.
- A Closer Look at 2D Borophene 06/05/2019 Researchers at Rice and Northwestern universities have developed a method to view 2D borophene crystals, which can have many lattice configurations.
- It's All in The Twist: Physicists Stack 2D Materials At Angles To Trap Particles 06/05/2019 Future technologies based on the principles of quantum mechanics could revolutionize information technology. But to realize the devices of tomorrow, today's physicists must develop precise and reliable platforms to trap and manipulate quantum-mechanical particles.
- Ultrathin And Ultrafast: Scientists Pioneer New Technique For Two-Dimensional Material Analysis 06/05/2019 Using a never-before-seen technique, scientists have found a new way to use some of the world's most powerful X-rays to uncover how atoms move in a single atomic sheet at ultrafast speeds.
- Materials Could Delay Frost Up To 300 Times Longer Than Existing Anti-Icing Coatings 06/05/2019 Most techniques to prevent frost and ice formation on surfaces rely heavily on heating or liquid chemicals that need to be repeatedly reapplied because they easily wash away.
- Fast And Selective Optical Heating For Functional Nanomagnetic Metamaterials 06/05/2019 Compared to so-far used global heating schemes, which are slow and energy-costly, light-controlled heating, using optical degrees of freedom such as light wavelength, polarisation, and power, allows to implement local, efficient, and fast heating schemes for the use in nanomagnetic computation or to quantify collective emergent phenomena in artificial spin systems.
- Researchers Capture An Image Of Negative Capacitance In Action 05/05/2019 Negative capacitance occurs when a change in charge causes the net voltage across a material to change in the opposite direction; so that a decrease in voltage leads to an increase in charge.
- Atomically Quasi '1D' Wires Created Using Carbon Nanotube Template 04/05/2019 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used carbon nanotube templates to produce nanowires of transition metal monochalcogenide (TMM), which are only three atoms wide in diameter.
- Shrinking The Carbon Footprint Of A Chemical In Everyday Objects 03/05/2019 The biggest source of global energy consumption is the industrial manufacturing of products such as plastics, iron, and steel. Not only does manufacturing these materials require huge amounts of energy, but many of the reactions also directly emit carbon dioxide as a byproduct.