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Low temperature milling makes hBN active

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) can be made ‘active’ by ball milling at extremely low temperatures

20 December 2021Cordelia Sealy

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NSF funds take 2D materials research center to next phase

Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings, operated by Penn State and Rice Universities, secures $1.5 million in Phase II funding from NSF

28 September 2021Cordelia Sealy

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Quasicrystal from the first nuclear explosion is promising new material

high pressure shocks shown to lead to new forms of matter

11 June 2021Laurie Donaldson

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Taking the trial-and-error out of crystal growth

systematic approach to growing 2D crystals using CVD based on large-scale databases and machine learning

3 August 2020Cordelia Sealy

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Five degrees of freedom

Five degrees of freedom in polycrystalline materials

25 March 2020David Bradley

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Between the sheets

Gold tape exfoliates vdW structures to make 2D sheets

4 March 2020David Bradley

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Complex oxide components for next-generation electronics

stacking ultrathin and complex oxide single-crystal layers for new electronic devices

24 February 2020Laurie Donaldson

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Slimmed down barium titanate looks good for electronic devices

A novel method for growing thin-films of barium titanate with few defects could lead to more energy efficient electronic devices.

29 June 2022

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Researchers learn how to analyze surface superstructures

Researchers have shown that machine learing can automatically process the diffraction patterns produced by analyzing suface superstructures on silicon.

24 June 2022

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Separate quantum dots generate identical photons

Researchers have developed a way to produce identical photons, with the same wavelength and polarization, from separate quantum dots.

21 June 2022

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Novel spectroscopy technique focuses on phonons

Researchers have used a novel spectroscopy technique to map the dynamic behavior of phonons in quantum dots at atomic scale.

15 June 2022

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Model system puts grain boundaries in a spin

Using spinning arrays of magnetic particles, researchers have modeled how shear influences grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials.

13 June 2022

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MOF membrane can clean up natural gas

A membrane produced by embedding a metal-organic framework into a polymer can remove hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide from natural gas.

10 June 2022

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New study takes aim at stronger metals

By firing microscopic particles at a surface, researchers have been able to study how the tiny crystalline grains in solid metals form at the nanoscale.

31 May 2022

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