Materials

Perovskite-molecule composite thin films for efficient and stable light-emitting diodesCredit: Magnus Johansson Researchers at Linköping University, working with colleagues in Great Britain, China and the Czech Republic, have…

Interdisciplinary team assesses technology and policy strategies for industrial decarbonization WASHINGTON, DC--A major new study by an interdisciplinary team of researchers finds that it is possible--and critical--to bring industrial…

The ultra-fast change of light helicity is particularly interesting to observe processes in magnetic materials and has long been expected by a large user communityCredit: F. Armborst/K. Holldack/HZB In synchrotron radiation…

Credit: Allan Wood WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, satellites and cellphone electronics soon will help the U.S. Navy save millions in costs and downtime, while extending the service…

New measurements from single electron tunneling provide spectroscopic evidence and cinch the case for a 'pair density wave' coexisting with superconductivityCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--For years physicists…

Shifting away from petroleum-based synthetic materialsCredit: Hitachi Zosen Corporation JST has announced that the development subject "Manufacturing Technology for New Plant-Origin Functional Materials", in the Newly extended…

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, a part of The University of Tokyo, demonstrated a novel artificial intelligence system that can…

Spanish conquerors depended on indigenous expertise to keep up their munitions supplies, archaeologists have found. When Spanish invaders arrived in the Americas, they were generally able to subjugate the local peoples thanks, in part, to…

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a heart condition that causes an irregular and abnormally fast heart rate, potentially leading to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications. While the causes of AF are unknown, it…

A team, including the man who invented DSL technology, attempted to scale up the original idea to use terahertz frequencies and discovered terabits-per-second data links are possibleCredit: Image courtesy of the authors WASHINGTON,…

The ERC has awarded one of its prestigious Advanced Grants to the leader of the Carbon Bionanotechnology group and Ikerbasque professor Maurizio Prato. The e-DOTS project is aiming to synthesise luminescent carbon nanoparticles with useful…

Credit: Ola Joensen Entanglement, a powerful form of correlation among quantum systems, is an important resource for quantum computing. Researchers from the Quantum Optomechanics group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of…

UMass Amherst, international team use simple capillary forces to direct aqueous solutionsCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In a new paper, Thomas Russell and postdoctoral fellow Ganhua Xie, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst…

A palette of colours on a silver plate: that is what the world's first colour photograph looks like. It was taken by French physicist Edmond Becquerel in 1848. His process was empirical, never explained, and quickly abandoned. A team at…

Direct experimental evidence for markedly enhanced surface proton activity inherent to water iceCredit: NINS/IMS Water ice is one of the most abundant solid substances in nature and hydrated protons on the ice surfaces…

Researchers in Japan develop a novel strategy for tissue regeneration, which is a better alternative to conventional tissue regeneration methodsCredit: Tokyo University of Science Joint diseases, such as knee osteoarthritis, are…

Rice University calculations show they could be highly useful for solar panelsCredit: Yakobson Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 27, 2020) - One nanotube could be great for electronics applications, but…

Pave the way to design new structural materials with superior mechanical propertiesCredit: © Professor Wang Xunli / City University of Hong Kongc An international research team led by scientists from City University of Hong…

Credit: ESA, Foster and Partners The modules that the major space agencies plan to erect on the Moon could incorporate an element contributed by the human colonizers themselves: the urea in their pee. European researchers…

Credit: University Rostock / Alexander Szameit Professor Ronny Thomale holds a chair for theoretical condensed matter physics, the TP1, at the Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg. The discovery and theoretical description of new…