Moiré patterns occur everywhere. They are created by layering two similar but not identical geometric designs. A common example is the pattern that sometimes emerges when viewing a chain-link fence through a second chain-link fence.
Apr 20, 2023
New work shows that this particular sandwich of graphene and boron nitride elicits properties that are suitable for use in new technological applications.
Apr 20, 2023
Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are new therapeutics that can be used to treat a variety of diseases. This has increased the need for safe, effective, and targeted methods of siRNA delivery in cells. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam an...
Apr 20, 2023
Recently quantum computers started to work with more than just the zeros and ones we know from classical computers. Now a team demonstrates a way to efficiently create entanglement of such high-dimensional systems to enable more powerful calculati...
Apr 20, 2023
Researchers at the Institute for Future Materials and Systems at Nagoya University in Japan have successfully synthesized barium titanate (BaTiO3) nanosheets with a thickness of 1.8 nanometers, the thinnest thickness ever created for a free-standi...
Apr 20, 2023
Sometimes to make big breakthroughs, you have to start very small.
Apr 20, 2023
Researchers used the relatively straightforward process of thermomechanical nanomolding to create single-crystalline nanowires that can enable metastable phases that would otherwise be difficult to achieve with conventional methods.
Apr 20, 2023
With a new microscopy technique that uses blue light to measure electrons in semiconductors and other nanoscale materials, a team of Brown University researchers is opening a new realm of possibilities in the study of these critical components, wh...
Apr 20, 2023
New discovery could be important for quantum information science and magnetic field sensing The post Giant orbital magnetic moment appears in a graphene quantum dot appeared first on Physics World.
Apr 20, 2023
Sometimes to make big breakthroughs, you have to start very small – from nanowires. Scientists can get the most out of certain quantum materials by fabricating nanoscale structures that generate new properties at the material’s surfaces and edges....
Apr 20, 2023
