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Electronic properties news, April 2017

Chinese researchers believe they’ve gotten a step closer to producing all-weather photovoltaics by integrating phosphors into solar cells.

28 April 2017Laurie Winkless
Open source hardware: first issue of HardwareX now available

Explore the first issue of HardwareX.

27 April 2017

Scientists have produced the first fully-functional microprocessor logic devices built from few-atom-thick layered materials.

26 April 2017

New research suggests that transition metal dichalcogenides could realize topological superconductivity and provide a platform for quantum computing.

25 April 2017

Stem cells can be turned into Schwann-like cells by growing them on printed, multi-layer graphene circuits and treating them with electricity.

25 April 2017

Scientists have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of the layered materials graphene, tungsten diselenide and boron nitride.

21 April 2017

Gray tin exhibits a novel electronic phase when its crystal structure is strained, making it one of the few examples of a topological Dirac semi-metal.

21 April 2017

Iron complex shows iron-involved photoluminescence.

19 April 2017David Bradley

Using polymer strands that contain a liquid metal alloy, scientists have developed elastic, touch-sensitive fibers.

18 April 2017

A new method can select semiconducting carbon nanotubes from a solution and make them self-assemble on a circuit of gold electrodes.

18 April 2017

Scientists have found a way to make graphene with fewer wrinkles, and to iron out those wrinkles that do still appear.

17 April 2017

Injecting charge carriers can promote a chemical reaction that converts a polymer precursor into a graphene nanoribbon.

14 April 2017

An international consortium are using the world’s most popular soft drink to produce a host of carbon-based storage materials.

13 April 2017Laurie Winkless

A new form of gallium(II) selenide with a boat-like conformation has a semiconducting band gap that could make it useful in electronic devices.

10 April 2017

The thinnest, smoothest layer of silver ever made could find use in touchscreens, optical computing and metamaterial superlenses.

10 April 2017

For work exploring boron doped diamond as a pH and chlorine sensor for water safety.

10 April 2017

A new self-assembly technique using block copolymers can produce some of the narrowest wires yet for use on computer chips.

7 April 2017

When heated to about 450°C, two-dimensional molybdenum ditelluride 'stripes' unexpectedly turn into one-dimensional 'stars'.

5 April 2017

Cutting edge research at the interface between physics and materials science.

4 April 2017

Wide-reaching analysis finds more women in research but physical sciences are lagging behind.

3 April 2017Cordelia Sealy

Renewable energy realized through new metal oxides using high-throughput computation and experiment

3 April 2017Laurie Donaldson

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