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Ultrafast, highly reversible sodium storage in engineered hard carbon achieved

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A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has demonstrated ultrafast and highly reversible all-slope sodium storage using specially engineered hard carbon anodes.

Dec 5, 2025

Chameleon-like nanomaterial can adapt its color to mechanical strain

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Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, a team of scientists from the University of Amsterdam have developed a material that can reflect different colors of light, depending on how it is stretched. The results were recently published in the jour...

Dec 5, 2025

A 1950s material just set a modern record for lightning-fast chips

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Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date. This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler, faster, and with dramatically lower energy co...

Dec 5, 2025

The “impossible” LED breakthrough that changes everything

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Scientists have discovered how to electrically power insulating nanoparticles using organic molecules that act like tiny antennas. These hybrids generate extremely pure near-infrared light, ideal for medical diagnostics and advanced communications...

Dec 5, 2025

First observation of ultra-thin two-dimensional materials in a state between solid and liquid

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Researchers directly filmed an atomically thin crystal melting, revealing an exotic hexatic phase that defies standard melting rules and contradicts theory.

Dec 5, 2025

Nanoscale kirigami silicon skin changes color when stretched

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Nanoscale kirigami inspired silicon metamaterial uses a cut and fold mesh to tune structural colour, smoothly shifting reflected light from green to yellow to red.

Dec 5, 2025

Nano droplets reveal how water behaves on high-tech surfaces

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Scientists used Atomic Force Microscopy to watch nano droplets in real time, exposing how water interacts with surfaces and improving energy and semiconductor technologies.

Dec 3, 2025

Water-resistant and recyclable redox-active metal-organic frameworks

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A new water-resistant redox-active metal-organic framework stores electrons in acidic aqueous batteries with high durability, then can be broken down and resynthesized for reuse.

Dec 3, 2025

Light-triggered nanoscale heating can control communication between nerve cells

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Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, report the successful creation of artificial synaptic vesicles that can be remotely controlled by near-infrared (NIR) light. By embedding a phthalocyanine dye into ...

Dec 2, 2025

Carbon monoxide, the 'silent killer,' becomes a boon for fuel cell catalysts

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Researchers have developed a technology that uses carbon monoxide, typically harmful to humans, to precisely control metal thin films at a thickness of 0.3 nanometers. This technology enables faster and simpler production of core–shell catalysts, ...

Dec 2, 2025

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