Characterization

Openings for Editors, the Acta Journals

Novel carbon-capture material is cheap and plastic

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide.

Taking the temperature of atomic-scale defects

Researchers have developed a new way to probe the atomic-scale defects created inside materials by assessing the amount of energy stored within them.

Magnetic finding reveals that nickelates are always on

Researchers have discovered that, unlike cuprates, nickelates are magnetic in both their superconducting and non-superconducting states.

Graphene helps reveal swimming atoms

Using a graphene liquid cell, researchers have, for the first time, managed to capture images of single atoms ‘swimming’ in liquid.

New finding puts a novel spin on 2D magnets

Using neutron scattering, researchers have, for the first time, discovered a a novel state of matter called a spiral spin liquid in a 2D material.

New finding about nickelate superconductors makes waves

For the first time, researchers have detected a type of quantum matter called charge density waves in a nickel oxide superconductor.

Buckyballs on gold don’t look like graphene

Researchers have shown that depositing a layer of buckyballs onto a gold surface does not turn it into an artificial version of graphene.

Electrons and holes both move fast in cubic boron arsenide

Researchers have experimentally confirmed that a cubic boron arsenide crystal offers high carrier mobility for both electrons and holes.

Forming 2D materials at the water’s edge

Researchers have developed a method for synthesizing 2D materials known as heterolayer coordination nanosheets between two liquids.