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- 3-D Print Experts Discover How To Make Tomorrow's Technology Using Ink-Jet Printed Graphene 11/11/2020 The University of Nottingham has cracked the conundrum of how to use inks to 3-D-print novel electronic devices with useful properties, such as an ability to convert light into electricity.
- Solar Cell Concept Used To Enhance Nuclear Battery 09/11/2020 Researchers in South Korea and the US have borrowed a strategy traditionally used in photovoltaic devices to enhance a battery concept that generates an electric current from beta particles.
- Scientists Cooled A Nanoparticle To The Quantum Limit 06/11/2020 The particle’s motion reached the lowest level allowed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
- Chemists Develop Framework To Enable Efficient Synthesis Of 'Information-Dense' Molecules 04/11/2020 A team led by scientists at Scripps Research has developed a theoretical approach that could ease the process of making highly complex, compact molecules.
- Do The Twist: Making Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials Using Curved Surfaces 03/11/2020 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.
- Graphene And Black Phosphorus Get Tough 30/10/2020 Two 2-D materials team up to create a composite with record toughness.
- Searching For Superconductors With Supercomputers 28/10/2020 José Flores-Livas is an assistant professor in the department of physics at the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy
- New Carbon Allotrope Predicted To Hit Bandgap Sweet Spot 26/10/2020 Computational scientists in China have simulated a graphene allotrope featuring different hybridisations of carbon that becomes a semiconductor when compressed.
- Finding The Right Color To Control Magnets With Laser Pulses 23/10/2020 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.
- A Newfound Superconducting Current Travels Only Along A Material’s Edge 21/10/2020 Electricity flows without resistance on the rim of molybdenum ditelluride
- New Quantum Computers Can Operate At Higher Temperatures 19/10/2020 Silicon chips raise hopes for scaling up devices to millions of quantum bits