Gen F Scientists

Are you on Facebook? Twitter, perhaps? Maybe LinkedIn? What about a social networking site dedicated to materials science? If you are not, you may be more alone than you think…
16 February 2010

Up close and personal with atoms and molecules Up close and personal with atoms and molecules

Nature is the best example of a system functioning on the nanometer scale, where the involved materials, energy consumption and data handling are optimized. Opening the doors to the nanoworld the emergence of the scanning tunneling microscope in 1982 and the atomic force microscope in 1986 led to a shift of paradigm in the understanding and perception of matter at its most fundamental level.
24 August 2009

Local bias-induced phase transitions

Electrical bias-induced phase transitions underpin a wide range of applications from data storage to energy generation and conversion.
27 November 2008