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Characterization news, November 2022

Self-assembled pinwheel structure displays surprising chirality

Researchers have developed a novel method for getting pyramid-shaped nanoparticles to self-assembe into pinwheel lattices with chiral properties.

29 November 2022

Researchers have turned Raman spectroscopy into a scientific ‘ruler’ to understand how 2D materials expand on exposure to heat.

28 November 2022

Researchers have shown that nickel oxide can display responses to brief electrical pulses that are similar to learning.

23 November 2022

Researchers have deduced that the thermal Hall effect in a magnetic insulator is caused by bosons in the presence of a novel force-field.

23 November 2022

Researchers have uncovered the dance that goes on between cerium, sulfates and water in a cerium-based flow cell battery.

22 November 2022

Researchers have developed a scanning probe microscope that uilizes terahertz waves and used it to study a perovskite material for solar cells.

21 November 2022

A new heat treatment can transform the microscopic structure of 3D-printed metals, making them less prone to the deformation process known as creep.

17 November 2022

Researchers have discovered how the electronic properties of the photoelectrode bismuth vanadate change when it gets wet.

17 November 2022

Using a new electron microscopy technique and data mining, researchers have mapped out altered domains in rechargeable ion batteries at the nanoscale.

15 November 2022

Researchers have discovered a material that can act as a magnetic topological insulator, able to conduct electrons along a ‘quantum highway’.

14 November 2022

A novel machine-learning method can analyze the speckle patterns produced when studying materials by X-ray scattering, even when highly 'blobby'.

14 November 2022

Researchers used various optical techniques to investigate the unusual superconductivity of a recently discovered family of kagome metals.

11 November 2022

By studying how sheets of graphene slide over a graphite surface, researchers have come up with a new law of friction.

9 November 2022

Researchers have shown that the metal-organic framework aluminum formate offers a cheap and effective material for capturing carbon dioxide.

9 November 2022

Researchers have developed a method for getting quantum dots to self-assemble into a highly conductive optoelectronic metamaterial.

8 November 2022

Researchers have shown that X-ray absorption spectroscopy and machine learning can be used to identify materials with topological properties.

7 November 2022

By shifting the oxidation-reduction potential of a lithium-metal electrode, researchers have enhanced the energy density of lithium-metal batteries.

4 November 2022

metamaterial based on liquid-crystal elastomers can change its mechanical properties in response to light

3 November 2022Cordelia Sealy

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