Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Valiev Institute of Physics and Technology have demonstrated resonant absorption of terahertz radiation in...
Jul 5, 2019
Recently, the investigation of ternary layered compounds with 2D features has emerged. Compared to 2D elements and binary compounds, ternary layered compounds possess more tunability for physical and chemical properties due to more element species...
Jul 5, 2019
Self-assembling materials called block copolymers, which are known to form a variety of predictable, regular patterns, can now be made into much more complex patterns that might someday be useful for making optical or plasmonic devices (in which e...
Jul 5, 2019
In a paper released today in Science Advances, Australian researchers describe the first observation of a native ferroelectric metal: a native metal with bistable and electrically switchable spontaneous polarization states--the hallmark of ferroel...
Jul 5, 2019
In 1665, Lord Christiaan Huygens found that two pendulum clocks, hung in the same wooden structure, oscillated spontaneously and perfectly in line but in opposite directions: the clocks oscillated in...
Jul 4, 2019
A particularly aggressive, metastasizing form of cancer, HER2-positive breast cancer, may be treated with nanoscopic particles "imprinted" with specific binding sites for the receptor molecule HER2. A...
Jul 4, 2019
Scientists at EPFL have found a method to make semiconducting, photoluminescent nanotubes form spontaneously in liquid solutions. The tubes — which contain many walls that are perfectly...
Jul 4, 2019
A truly single-layer (that is, adlayer-free) large-area graphene film on large-area copper foils has been reported by the research group of Director Rodney Ruoff from the Center for Multidimensional...
Jul 4, 2019
Global warming poses a serious hazard to Earth and living beings. The rise in the atmospheric CO2 level is one of the key reasons for global warming. The major origin of this CO2 is from the...
Jul 4, 2019
A joint team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is
Jul 4, 2019
