Nanoparticles appear to be tiny. They measure only 1/1000th of a millimeter, and hence cannot be seen with the naked eye. Although they are small, they are highly crucial in several ways.
Jul 27, 2020
The twist has been taking the field of condensed matter physics by storm. No, not the 1960s dance craze made famous by Chubby Checker— the stunning discovery that two sheets of graphene, a flat honeycomb-shaped lattice of carbon, could be stacked ...
Jul 27, 2020
Water molecules play an active role in facilitating the oxygen dissociation needed for the oxidation reaction.
Jul 27, 2020
Intermetallic alloys potentially have high strength in a high-temperature environment. But they generally suffer poor ductility at ambient and low temperatures, hence limiting their applications in aerospace and other engineering fields. Yet, a re...
Jul 27, 2020
Scientists demonstrate a synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy-based method by which the local temperatures of metal nanoparticles can be measured under microwaves.
Jul 27, 2020
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced and detailed a blueprint for a national quantum internet that would be super-fast and nigh on unhackable. The document describes four research areas that need to be given priority in order to develop...
Jul 27, 2020
When ultrafine magnetic particles are exposed to an external magnetic field, their magnetic core grows in a previously unexpected way.
Jul 27, 2020
Intermetallic alloys potentially have high strength in a high-temperature environment. But they generally suffer poor ductility at ambient and low temperatures, hence limiting their applications in...
Jul 27, 2020
Researchers overcame the natural restrictions by developing optical tweezers based on metamaterials - a synthetic material with specific properties that do not occur naturally. This was the first time that this kind of metamaterial had been used f...
Jul 27, 2020
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Yokohama National University uncover the peculiar mechanism by which spin perturbations travel through a seemingly unpassable region of a quantum spin liquid system. This new insight may represent an...
Jul 27, 2020
