Surface science

Low-powered laser produces smaller graphene features

Using a low-powered laser, researchers have been able to fabricate graphene features as small as 12µm onto the surface of a polymer.

New textured surface helps to stop foam from forming

Novel bubble-attracting sheets of specially textured mesh can make bubbles collapse as fast as they form, reducing the build-up of foam.

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Tomography and papyrus algorithm unravel secrets of wound electrodes

Using two forms of tomography and an algorithm for unrolling papyrus scrolls, researchers have investigated the surfaces of cylindrical electrodes.

Silver sawtooth provides quantum leap for 2D material

Scientists used a silver sawtooth nanoslit array to produce valley-coherent photoluminescence in 2D tungsten disulfide at room temperature.

Appealing new method for stacking complex oxide layers

Using a peel-away layer of graphene, researchers can produce freestanding ultrathin layers of complex oxides and then stack them together.

How to better build bone

Sheets of cells that can regenerate blood vessels and be sculpted magnetically could advance bone tissue engineering

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Overdoping reveals role of electron spin in high-temperature superconductivity

Researchers have discovered that spin fluctuations may bind electrons into the pairs required for high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates.

Fermi arcs hinge on topology of Dirac semimetals

Researchers have discovered an exotic new form of topological state in a large class of 3D semi-metallic crystals called Dirac semimetals.