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Economics & Business 15 hours ago

Scholars explain the ideology that says technology is the answer to every problem

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen penned a 5,000-word manifesto in 2023 that gave a full-throated call for unrestricted technological progress to boost markets, broaden energy production, improve education ...

Condensed Matter Apr 24, 2024

A shade closer to more efficient organic photovoltaics

Transparent solar cells will transform the look of infrastructure by enabling many more surfaces to become solar panels. Now, materials called non-fullerene acceptors that can intrinsically generate charges when exposed to ...

Nanomaterials Apr 24, 2024

Research combines DNA origami and photolithography to move one step closer to molecular computers

Molecular computer components could represent a new IT revolution and help us create cheaper, faster, smaller, and more powerful computers. Yet researchers struggle to find ways to assemble them more reliably and efficiently.

Analytical Chemistry Apr 24, 2024

Scientists develop novel liquid metal alloy system to synthesize diamond under moderate conditions

Did you know that 99% of synthetic diamonds are currently produced using high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) methods? A prevailing paradigm is that diamonds can only be grown using liquid metal catalysts in the "gigapascal ...

Condensed Matter Apr 24, 2024

Making light 'feel' a magnetic field like an electron would

Unlike electrons, particles of light are uncharged, so they do not respond to magnetic fields. Despite this, researchers have now experimentally made light effectively "feel" a magnetic field within a complicated structure ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 24, 2024

Light stands still in a deformed crystal

AMOLF researchers, in collaboration with Delft University of Technology, have succeeded in bringing light waves to a halt by deforming the two-dimensional photonic crystal that contains them. The researchers show that even ...

Condensed Matter Apr 22, 2024

New 2D material manipulates light with remarkable precision and minimal loss

Responding to the increasing demand for efficient, tunable optical materials capable of precise light modulation to create greater bandwidth in communication networks and advanced optical systems, a team of researchers at ...

Condensed Matter Apr 22, 2024

Study shows ultra-thin two-dimensional materials can rotate the polarization of visible light

It has been known for centuries that light exhibits wave-like behavior in certain situations. Some materials are able to rotate the polarization, i.e. the direction of oscillation, of the light wave when the light passes ...

Nanomaterials Apr 19, 2024

Development of organic semiconductors featuring ultrafast electrons

Scientists have created conducting two-dimensional polymers exhibiting electron mobility comparable to graphene. Their research has been featured in the online edition of Chem.

Nanophysics Apr 19, 2024

Comprehensive model unravels quantum-mechanical effects behind photoluminescence in thin gold films

EPFL researchers have developed the first comprehensive model of the quantum-mechanical effects behind photoluminescence in thin gold films; a discovery that could drive the development of solar fuels and batteries.

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