Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the DOE are upgrading the Advanced Light Source (ALS). The combination of the accumulator ring and upgraded main storage ring will enable at least 100 times brighter beams at key energies, and will make th...
Jan 29, 2020
Researchers explain how a higher order periodic modulations due to the encapsulation of graphene between hexagonal boron nitride, called supermoire, affects the electronic and structural properties of graphene, as revealed in three recent independ...
Jan 29, 2020
This exotic liquid-like state of matter in which magnetism never freezes could give rise to high-temperature superconductivity and form the basis for quantum computing.
Jan 29, 2020
Researchers have developed the concept for constructing an 'optical vacuum cleaner'. Due to its optical properties, it can trap nanoparticles from the environment.
Jan 29, 2020
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum dots -- tiny islands of confined electric charge that act like interacting artificial ...
Jan 29, 2020
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed nanoparticles that, in the lab, can activate immune responses to cancer cells. If they are shown to work as well in the body as they do in the lab, the nanoparticles might provide an effec...
Jan 29, 2020
Graphene is a paradox. It is the thinnest material known to science, yet also one of the strongest. Now, research from University of Toronto Engineering shows that graphene is also highly resistant to fatigue -- able to withstand more than a billi...
Jan 29, 2020
Graphene is seen as the wonder material of the future. Scientists can grow perfect graphene layers on square centimetre-sized crystals. Researchers from the University of Göttingen, together with the Chemnitz University of Technology and the Physi...
Jan 29, 2020
A group of materials scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology has shown that a palladium-based intermetallic electride, Y3Pd2, can improve the efficiency of carbon-carbon cross-coupling reactions. Their findings point the way to a more sustaina...
Jan 29, 2020
The environmental impact of building materials, including concrete, can be significantly reduced by a banana peel when it is converted into graphene. While individuals are at it, they can discard the...
Jan 28, 2020
