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Optics & Photonics Feb 20, 2020

Laser writing enables practical flat optics and data storage in glass

Femtosecond laser machining has emerged as an attractive technology enabling applications ranging from eye surgery to direct writing on the bulk of transparent materials. Scientists from the University of Southampton, UK, ...

Nanomaterials Feb 14, 2020

Researchers unveil the mystery of van der Waals magnets, a material for future semiconductors

Drs. Chaun Jang, Jun Woo Choi, and Hyejin Ryu of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Lee Byung Gwon) have announced that their team at KIST's Center for Spintronics successfully controlled the magnetic ...

Biochemistry Feb 13, 2020

Bioengineers take step toward a patch that could mend a broken heart

Bioengineers from Trinity have developed a prototype patch that does the same job as crucial aspects of heart tissue.

Earth Sciences Feb 13, 2020

Heat transport property at the lowermost part of the Earth's mantle

Lattice thermal conductivities of MgSiO3 bridgmanite and postperovskite (PPv) phases under the Earth's deepest mantle conditions have been determined by quantum mechanical computer simulations. Researchers at Ehime University ...

General Physics Feb 12, 2020

Antiferromagnetic bimeron shows chaotic behaviors

Magnetic bimeron is a topological spin texture with particle-like characteristics, which can exist in chiral magnets with in-plane magnetic anisotropy. The magnetic bimeron with topological charge of one can be regarded as ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 7, 2020

Silver sawtooth creates valley-coherent light for nanophotonics

Scientists at the University of Groningen used a silver sawtooth nanoslit array to produce valley-coherent photoluminescence in two-dimensional tungsten disulfide flakes at room temperature. Until now, this could only be ...

Superconductivity Feb 5, 2020

Phonon hydrodynamics and ultrahigh-room temperature thermal conductivity in thin graphite

Different forms of carbon or allotropes including graphene and diamond are among the best conductors of heat. In a recent report on Science, Yo Machida and a research team in the department of Physics and the Laboratory of ...

Bio & Medicine Jan 24, 2020

Researchers explain how disorder in tiny crystals enables heat-therapeutic systems

A new research study at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Lasers (IESL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) finds that minute crystals, many thousand times smaller than a particle of dust, ...

Analytical Chemistry Jan 22, 2020

Determining the atomic structure of natural products more rapidly and accurately

Many drugs are derived from natural products. But before natural products can be exploited, chemists must first determine their structure and stereochemistry. This can be a major challenge, particularly when the molecules ...

Materials Science Jan 17, 2020

Material developed which is heat-insulating and heat-conducting at the same time

Styrofoam or copper—both materials have very different properties with regard to their ability to conduct heat. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz and the University of Bayreuth ...

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