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- 03/11/2020 Do The Twist: Making Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials Using Curved Surfaces Scientists have discovered a way to control the growth of twisting, microscopic spirals of materials just one atom thick. The continuously twisting stacks of two-dimensional materials built by a team create new properties that scientists can exploit to study quantum physics on the nanoscale.
- 30/10/2020 Graphene And Black Phosphorus Get Tough Two 2-D materials team up to create a composite with record toughness.
- 28/10/2020 Searching For Superconductors With Supercomputers José Flores-Livas is an assistant professor in the department of physics at the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy
- 26/10/2020 New Carbon Allotrope Predicted To Hit Bandgap Sweet Spot Computational scientists in China have simulated a graphene allotrope featuring different hybridisations of carbon that becomes a semiconductor when compressed.
- 23/10/2020 Finding The Right Color To Control Magnets With Laser Pulses Scientists have discovered a new way to manipulate magnets with laser light pulses shorter than a trillionth of a second. The international team of researchers also identified the light wavelength or color which enables the most efficient manipulation.
- 21/10/2020 A Newfound Superconducting Current Travels Only Along A Material’s Edge Electricity flows without resistance on the rim of molybdenum ditelluride
- 19/10/2020 New Quantum Computers Can Operate At Higher Temperatures Silicon chips raise hopes for scaling up devices to millions of quantum bits
- 16/10/2020 Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 Black holes and the Milky Way’s darkest secret
- 14/10/2020 Team Extracts More Energy From Sunlight With Advanced Solar Panels Researchers working to maximize solar panel efficiency said layering advanced materials atop traditional silicon is a promising path to eke more energy out of sunlight.
- 13/10/2020 Gene-editing Tool CRISPR Wins The Chemistry Nobel The ‘molecular scissors’ were developed just eight years ago