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Condensed Matter Mar 11, 2021

Scientists stabilize atomically thin boron for practical use

Northwestern University researchers have, for the first time, created borophane—atomically thin boron that is stable at standard temperatures and air pressures.

Nanophysics Mar 10, 2021

Sushi-like rolled 2D heterostructures may lead to new miniaturized electronics

The recent synthesis of one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, a type of heterostructure made by layering two-dimensional materials that are one atom thick, may lead to new, miniaturized electronics that are currently ...

Materials Science Mar 8, 2021

Chiral amines synthesized by nickel-catalysed asymmetric reductive hydroalkylation

Recently, a research group led by Prof. Fu Yao and associate research fellow Lu Xi From Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Chemistry and Materials Science of the University of ...

Nanomaterials Mar 5, 2021

Compression or strain—the material always expands

An international research team led by chemist Prof. Thomas Heine of TU Dresden has discovered a new two-dimensional material with unprecedented properties: regardless of whether it is strained or compressed, it always expands. ...

General Physics Mar 4, 2021

Twistoptics—A new way to control optical nonlinearity

Nonlinear optics, a study of how light interacts with matter, is critical to many photonic applications, from the green laser pointers we're all familiar with to intense broadband (white) light sources for quantum photonics ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 3, 2021

Molybdenum disulfide ushers in era of post-silicon photonics

Researchers of the Center for Photonics and Two-Dimensional Materials at MIPT, together with their colleagues from Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, and Singapore, including co-creator of the world's first 2-D material and Nobel ...

Biochemistry Mar 3, 2021

Chemists boost boron's utility: Preventing compounds from breaking down could help chemists design new drugs

Boron, a metalloid element that sits next to carbon in the periodic table, has many traits that make it potentially useful as a drug component. Nonetheless, only five FDA-approved drugs contain boron, largely because molecules ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 2, 2021

Photonics discovery portends dramatic efficiencies in silicon chips

A team led by Vanderbilt engineers has achieved the ability to transmit two different types of optical signals across a single chip at the same time.

Nanomaterials Feb 26, 2021

Engineering the boundary between 2-D and 3-D materials

In recent years, engineers have found ways to modify the properties of some "two- dimensional" materials, which are just one or a few atoms thick, by stacking two layers together and rotating one slightly in relation to the ...

Analytical Chemistry Feb 11, 2021

Iridium-catalyzed Z-retentive asymmetric allylic substitution reactions

In synthetic organic chemistry, Z-olefins are a challenging synthetic target to produce in the lab due to their relative thermodynamic instability. The Z-olefins form an unsaturated compound with a CnH2n formula that can ...

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