Materials

Credit: Kesari Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Nacre -- the iridescent part of mollusk shells -- is a poster child for biologically inspired design. Despite being made of brittle chalk, the intricately layered…

Material developed which is heat-insulating and heat-conducting at the same timeCredit: Copyright: MPI-P, Licence CC-BY-SA. Styrofoam or copper - both materials have very different properties with regard to their ability to conduct…

Credit: © ULB Roughness, the presence of irregularities on a surface, is commonly associated to slower motion and stickiness. This is true at different length scales: at human size (1 meter), it takes longer to walk along a path that…

A new device measures the tiniest energies in superconducting circuits, an essential step for quantum technology Quantum physics is moving out of the laboratory and into our everyday lives. Despite the big headline results about quantum…

Physicists provide direct evidence of entanglement's role in quantum criticalityCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (Jan. 16, 2020) -- In a new study, U.S. and Austrian physicists have observed quantum entanglement…

For years, a new synthesis method has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna) to unlock the secrets of "strange metals". Now a breakthrough has been achieved. The results have been published in "Science".Credit: TU Wien …

Experimental physicists have combined several measurements of quantum materials into one in their ongoing quest to learn more about manipulating and controlling the behavior of them for possible applications. They even coined a term for…

Credit: ©ICFO Optical sensing in the mid to long infrared (5microns - um) is becoming of utmost importance in different fields since it is proving to be an excellent tool for environmental monitoring, gas sensing, thermal imaging…

Complex porous, chiral nano-patterns arise from a simple linear building blockCredit: Bodong Zhang / TUM Nanoscience can arrange minute molecular entities into nanometric patterns in an orderly manner using self-assembly protocols.…

Two INRS teams join forces and develop a new ecological process to degrade atrazineCredit: My Ali El Khakani, INRS Québec, January 15 2020 -- Atrazine is one of the most widely used pesticides in North America. Researchers at the…