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
Materials scientists at Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania are calling for a collective, global effort to fast-track the mass production of 2D materials like graphene and molybdenum disulfide.
Jul 27, 2020
Nanocatalysts made of gold nanoparticles dispersed on metal oxides are very promising for the industrial, selective oxidation of compounds, including alcohols, into valuable chemicals. They show high catalytic activity, particularly in aqueous sol...
Jul 27, 2020
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and International Christian University (ICU) demonstrate a synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy-based method by which the local temperatures of metal nanoparticles can be measured under microwaves...
Jul 27, 2020
IBS research team reports a novel method to grow multi-layered, single-crystalline graphene with a selected stacking order in a wafer scale. They obtained four-layered graphene using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) via Cu-Si alloy formation.
Jul 27, 2020
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers find titanium dioxide nanoparticles produce inflammation in colon. A common food additive, recently banned in France but allowed in the U.S. and many other countries, was found to significantly alter...
Jul 26, 2020
