Superconductors/Semiconductors

The studies could lead to a new understanding of how high-temperature superconductors operate.Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory High-temperature superconductors, which carry electricity with zero resistance…

The three-dimensional quantum Hall effect was predicted more than 30 years ago, but has not been observed until now by the Singapore University of Technology and Design together with international researchersCredit: Wang Guoyan & He…

Possible 'topological superconductor' could overcome industry's problem of quantum decoherenceCredit: Natasha Hanacek/NIST A potentially useful material for building quantum computers has been unearthed at the National Institute of…

Credit: Angelo Di Bernardo Starting on 1 October 2019, the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award winner Dr Angelo Di Bernardo will contribute to the research carried out at the University of Konstanz in the area of Nano and Materials Science…

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology The periodic table has been a vital foundational tool for material research since it was first created 150 years ago. Now, Martin Rahm from Chalmers University of Technology…

The resulting nanostructured materials have unique propertiesCredit: @SAMARAPOLYTECH Under the leadership of the head of the laboratory for the synthesis of new crystalline materials of the Samara Center for Theoretical Materials…

A joint Russian-American paper appeared in The Journal of Physical Chemistry CCredit: Kazan Federal University The beginning of this project dates back to 2012-2013, when team leader Ayrat Dimiev was working at Rice University,…

Credit: Tokyo Tech Semiconducting polymers, very large chain-like molecules made from repeating sub-units, are increasingly drawing the attention of researchers because of their potential applications in organic electronic devices.…

Device also can serve as robotic skin, relaying information back to the userCredit: University of Houston Wearable human-machine interfaces - devices that can collect and store important health information about the wearer, among other…

Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA When you pop a tray of water into the freezer, you get ice cubes. Now, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Toronto have achieved a similar transition using clouds of…