Electronic properties news, November 2022

New printing technique puts the curves into electronic circuits

Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for directly printing electronic circuits onto curved and corrugated surfaces.

2022 Materials Today Innovation Award Winner Announced

Parapets and aqueducts arise at nanoscale

A new way to guide the self-assembly of a wide range of nanoscale structures, including parapets and aqueducts, uses simple polymers as starting materials.

Biodegradable paper sensor detects spoiled food

smart paper packaging with built-in graphene sensor could offer real-time warnings of spoiled food or temperature conditions likely to cause spoilage

Electric shock leads to learning for nickel oxide

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

3D piezoelectric makes flexible energy harvester

flexible three-dimensional piezoelectric nanocomposite with integrated electrodes makes useful energy harvesting device

New microscope sheds novel light on perovskite degradation

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

Novel material can learn from history

Researchers have developed a new magnetic material that can change its electrical behavior based on previous experience, giving it a form of memory.

What happens when bismuth vanadate gets wet?

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

Novel reaction process could fuel soft robotics

Researchers have developed a novel reaction process that uses fuel to control non-living materials such as hydrogels by charging them.

New material directs electrons onto quantum highway

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

Symmetry and superconductivity in kagome metals

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

New material becomes a diode without the doping

Researchers have developed a material that can switch from p-conducting to n-conducting with a small change in temperature.

Quantum dots line up to form novel metamaterial

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

Absorbing X-rays reveal topological materials

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

Novel heterostructure shows two electrical properties are better than one

Combining a thin-film superconducor with a thin-film topological insulator offers a novel way to explore topological superconductivity.

Disorder like a plastic, conduct like a metal

Scientists have managed to produce a material with the disordered structure of a plastic that conducts electricity more like a metal.

Metamaterial switches properties in a flash

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

Graphene collagen composite makes ideal neuronal interface

novel conductive biomaterial composite based on pristine graphene and collagen is ideal for neural medical device applications