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Smashing new technique for creating heterostructured materials

A new technique for making heterostructured materials uses ball milling to smash structurally incommensurate solids and then reassemble them.

Laser beam on an impure crystal produces cool cantilever

By shining laser light onto an impure crystal, researchers were able to cool a semiconductor cantilever to at least 20°C below room temperature.

Building smart medicines with self-assembling nanoparticles

Smart medicines could generate drugs and imaging agents when they come into contact with diseased tissues

Mopping up tiny particle pollution

Materials called metal-organic frameworks can be spun into fibres to filter particulate pollutants from air

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Bright future for printing LEDs from hybrid perovskite solution

By utilizing a seed crystal, researchers have succeeded in printing functional light-emitting diodes from a hybrid perovskite solution.

Impurities play major role in melting process

Using tiny polystyrene beads arranged in a crystalline lattice, researchers have discovered that impurities play a major role in the melting process.

Cascade to superconductivity in magic-angle graphene

Researchers have detected signatures of a cascade of energy transitions that could help explain how superconductivity arises in magic-angle graphene.

Hollow structures spontaneously let batteries store more energy

The spontaneous formation of hollow structures in nanoscale antimony crystals could increase the energy density of lithium-ion batteries.

Computational tools put novel spin on quantum materials

Researchers have developed a theoretical foundation and computational tools for accurately predicting the spin dynamics of any material.

New study puts active materials in a spin

Applying a magnetic field to small particles of nickel suspended at the surface of water causes them to assemble into a novel active material.

Nitrogen produces 2D material when forced to follow rules

At very high temperatures and pressures, nitrogen can adopt the same 2D crystalline structure as black phosphorus.

Metals in the middle create new library of 2D materials

By inserting metal atoms between transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers, researchers have created a whole new library of 2D materials.

Gurit brings forward closure of Switzerland plant

Gurit says that the closure of its Zullwil aerospace plant will take place several months earlier than originally planned.

Radiation can push atoms in ceramics to the boundary

Researchers have discovered that carbon atoms in the ceramic material silicon carbide collect at grain boundaries when it is exposed to radiation.

Cracking new AI system for predicting material properties

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can determine material properties such as toughness in a matter of milliseconds.