From cellphones to electric vehicles to microgrids, the future is battery powered. The current go-to lithium-ion batteries, however, require hard-to-find, expensive materials, and their liquid electrolytes can make for a ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 24, 2023
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A recent UNSW-led paper published in Nature Communications presents an exciting new way to listen to avalanches of atoms in crystals.
Nanophysics
Aug 23, 2023
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Materials are often considered to be one phase, but many engineering materials contain two or more phases, improving their properties and performance. These two-phase materials have inclusions, called precipitates, embedded ...
Nanophysics
Aug 17, 2023
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In Brazil's North region, members of the population of red mangrove trees (Rhizophora mangle) do not often meet relatives from the South and vice-versa. However, occasional migrations via ocean currents between the two regions ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2023
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Neuromorphic computers do not calculate using zeros and ones. They instead use physical phenomena to detect patterns in large data streams at blazing fast speed and in an extremely energy-efficient manner.
Condensed Matter
Jul 24, 2023
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Putting a suite of new materials synthesis and characterization methods to the test, a team of scientists from the University of Iowa and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has developed ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 19, 2023
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In recent years, scientists have been studying special materials called topological materials, with special attention paid to the shape, or topology, of their electronic structures (electronic bands). Although it is not visible ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 30, 2023
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Humans contain multitudes. Each person on the planet contains enough DNA to stretch to Pluto—several times.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 29, 2023
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Chinese scientists have proposed a new method for direct fabrication of sub-10 nm nanopores in WO3 nanosheets using swift heavy ions. The results have been published in Nano Letters.
Nanophysics
Jun 21, 2023
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Quantum technology is expected to fundamentally change many key areas of society. Researchers are convinced that there are many more useful quantum properties and applications to explore than those we know today. A team of ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 20, 2023
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