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Ultralight materials: High strength through hierarchy

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As light as possible and as strong as possible at the same time. These are the requirements for modern lightweight materials, such as those used in aircraft construction and the automotive industry. A research team has now developed a new material...

Mar 4, 2021

High strength through hierarchy: Researchers develop new process for building ultralight materials

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As light as possible and as strong as possible at the same time: These are the requirements for modern lightweight materials, such as those used in aircraft construction and the automotive industry. A research team from Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthach...

Mar 4, 2021

'Egg carton' quantum dot array could lead to ultralow power devices

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A new path toward sending and receiving information with single photons of light has been discovered by an international team of researchers led by the University of Michigan.

Mar 4, 2021

A COSMIC approach to nanoscale science

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COSMIC, a multipurpose X-ray instrument at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (Berkeley Lab's) Advanced Light Source (ALS), has made headway in the scientific community since its launch less than 2 years ago, with groundbreaking con...

Mar 4, 2021

A COSMIC approach to nanoscale science: Instrument achieves world-leading resolution of nanomaterials

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COSMIC, a multipurpose X-ray instrument, has made headway in the scientific community since its launch less than 2 years ago, with contributions in fields ranging from batteries to biominerals.

Mar 4, 2021

'Egg carton' quantum dot array could lead to ultralow power devices

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A new path toward sending and receiving information with single photons of light has been discovered by an international team of researchers.

Mar 4, 2021

Zinc oxide: Key component for the methanol synthesis reaction over copper catalysts

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The current commercial production of methanol through the hydrogenation of the green-house gas CO2 relies on a catalyst consisting of copper, zinc oxide and aluminum oxide. Even though this catalyst has been used for many decades in the chemical i...

Mar 4, 2021

Magnetic whirls in confined spaces: Mobility of skyrmions in geometric structures depends on their arrangement

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Experimental and theoretical physicists investigated the behavior of magnetic whirls within nanoscale geometric structures.

Mar 4, 2021

van der Waals heterostructures harness ionic power from photo-induced ion transport

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In general, there are three types of driving force for ion transport: electric field; mechanical pressure; and concentration gradient. Recently, light has been propsoed as a fourth. Now, researchers report the incorporation of a transition metal d...

Mar 4, 2021

Metallic state of Ag nanoclusters in oxidative dispersion identified in situ

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Oxidative dispersion has been widely used in the regeneration of sintered metal catalysts as well as the fabrication of single-atom catalysts.

Mar 4, 2021

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