Search results for metastable state

Superconductivity Mar 22, 2024

Putting a new spin on 1T phase tantalum disulfide: Scientists uncover a hidden electronic state

Research often unfolds as a multistage process. The solution to one question can spark several more, inspiring scientists to reach further and look at the larger problem from several different perspectives. Such projects ...

Analytical Chemistry Mar 4, 2024

From ordered to disordered: Progress in multiscale self-assembly of peptides

Research on biomolecular self-assembly helps to reveal cell function and disease pathogenesis, and also provides an effective means to construct green ecological material systems with unique functions. Recently, a team led ...

Nanophysics Feb 27, 2024

Unconventional piezoelectricity in ferroelectric hafnia

Hafnium oxide thin films are a fascinating class of materials with robust ferroelectric properties in the nanometer range. While the ferroelectric behavior is extensively studied, results on piezoelectric effects have so ...

Condensed Matter Feb 12, 2024

How semiconductor defects could boost quantum technology

In diamonds (and other semiconducting materials), defects are a quantum sensor's best friend. That's because defects, essentially a jostled arrangement of atoms, sometimes contain electrons with an angular momentum, or spin, ...

Nanophysics Feb 1, 2024

Solving mysteries of metallic glass at the nanoscale

The matter of how metals deform or respond to external stresses has been extensively studied among metallurgists for centuries. When it comes to conventional metals—the crystalline kind with atoms that line up in neat patterns—the ...

Condensed Matter Jan 22, 2024

Manipulated hafnia paves the way for next-generation memory devices

Scientists and engineers have been pushing for the past decade to leverage an elusive ferroelectric material called hafnium oxide, or hafnia, to usher in the next generation of computing memory. A team of researchers including ...

Analytical Chemistry Jan 17, 2024

The pros and cons of oxygen mediating the performance of nickel catalysts in dry reforming of methane

Catalysis is one of the key technologies in the chemical industry and has a wide-reaching impact on various aspects of our daily lives, including plastics manufacturing, drug synthesis, and production of both fertilizers ...

Political science Dec 13, 2023

Political science meets physical science: The shared concept of stability

In a Perspective, a biophysical chemist, Kenneth J. Breslauer, and his brother, a political scientist, George W. Breslauer, explore the parallelisms between the concept of stability as it is used in their respective fields. ...

Analytical Chemistry Nov 10, 2023

A reliable experimental benchmark in crystal structure prediction of pharmaceutical drugs

Physical properties (stability, solubility, etc.), critical to the performance of pharmaceutical and functional materials, are known to strongly depend on the solid-state form and environmental factors, such as temperature ...

Analytical Chemistry Oct 13, 2023

Local chemical pressure experimentally sensed by optical probe

The practical application of high-pressure metastable materials is hindered by severe synthesis condition, poor yield, and mostly vanishing phase and phenomena after decompressing. The scaled-up capture of these metastable ...

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