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- 15/07/2019 ‘Colossal Elastocaloric Effect’ Could Lead To Better Refrigerators Squash and squeeze: changing the crystal structure of an elastocaloric material involves the exchange of heat.
- 13/07/2019 Machine Learning Collaborations Accelerate Materials Discovery Data driven science.
- 11/07/2019 Liquefied Gas Electrolyte Improves Lithium-Ion Anodes Improvements to liquefied gas electrolytes could pave the way to a high-impact and long-sought advance for rechargeable batteries
- 09/07/2019 The Promise Of Silicon Photonics Photonics-based computing uses less energy and can transmit data faster than conventional approaches, but the costs of manufacturing silicon integrated circuits with embedded photonic elements have held back progress. Scott Jordan outlines how improved optical positioning technologies could help
- 07/07/2019 ‘Little Big Coil’ Creates Record-Breaking Continuous Magnetic Field The highest continuous magnetic field ever created in the lab has been achieved by physicists in the US.
- 05/07/2019 Magnets That Double Efficiency Of Water Splitting Could Help Usher In A Hydrogen Economy Simply bringing an ordinary permanent magnet within touching distance of a water splitting reactor can double the process’ efficiency. Slashing the amount of energy required to split water opens the way to industrial production of hydrogen and an economy that runs on the gas, all powered by renewable energy.
- 03/07/2019 Exotic Particles Called Pentaquarks May Be Less Weird Than Previously Thought The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment has discovered three new pentaquarks.
- 01/07/2019 The Language Of Physics 30 words that mean something different to scientists.
- 29/06/2019 Nanoscale Optical Imaging Gets Simpler And Cheaper The promise of optical imaging and its wealth of spectroscopic information at nanoscale resolution seems too good to be true, and for many labs it has been.
- 27/06/2019 X-Ray Diffraction Reveals Switching Mechanism In Phase-Change Materials Phase-change materials can be reversibly switched between their glassy and crystalline states by applying a voltage that heats up the material or by directly heating them up with a laser.