Over half the time (61.4 percent) that electric vehicles spend connected to public charging stations, they're idly occupying a space that another car could use, according to a JRC-led study of e-vehicle charging times in ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 6, 2019
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A new study provides insight into multiferroic materials, which could have substantive implications in fields such as data storage.
Condensed Matter
Apr 25, 2019
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A new type of light-emitting diode has been developed at TU Wien. Light is produced from the radiative decay of exciton complexes in layers of just a few atoms thickness.
Nanophysics
Apr 15, 2019
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The enhanced power of the new measuring technique to characterize materials at scales much smaller than any current technologies will accelerate the discovery and investigation of 2-D, micro- and nanoscale materials.
General Physics
Apr 9, 2019
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With a little physics ingenuity, scientists have designed a way to redistribute electricity on a small scale, potentially opening new avenues of research into more energy-efficient computing.
General Physics
Apr 9, 2019
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A team of scientists including researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have identified the causes of degradation in a cathode material for ...
Materials Science
Mar 15, 2019
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In these kinds of structures, sound signals remain robust and insensitive to noise caused by impurities and defects in the material. In the framework of this research, scientists have discovered that the acoustic topological ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 6, 2019
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How many years can a mountain exist? Bob Dylan's rhetorical question has just received yet another scientifically based answer. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) and Denmark's Technical University (DTU) ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2019
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For many years, scientists have been looking for an effective and efficient way to turn water into energy-storing fuels using solar- and wind-powered electricity, likely by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. To do ...
Materials Science
Feb 8, 2019
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Cuprates, a class of copper-oxide ceramics that share a common building block of copper and oxygen atoms in a flat square lattice, have been studied for their ability to be superconducting at relatively high temperatures. ...
Superconductivity
Jan 29, 2019
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