The quest for rare earths vital to some of modern life's most indispensable technologies may see mining robots jet to the stars within decades, a world-first conference in Australia was told Wednesday.
Space Exploration
Feb 20, 2013
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Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University College London, and Florida International University have determined how a particular oxide material, lanthanum chromium oxide (LCO), interacts with visible ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 13, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Research at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science's Advanced Photon Source (APS) provides new insights about a material that might form the basis for an alternative to conventional silicon-based semiconductor ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 13, 2012
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(Phys.org)—A team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Ho Nyung Lee has discovered a strain relaxation phenomenon in cobaltites that has eluded researchers for decades and may lead to advances in fuel cells, magnetic ...
Nanophysics
Sep 20, 2012
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An advanced material that could help bring about next-generation "spintronic" computers has revealed one of its fundamental secrets to a team of scientists from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and the National Institute ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 19, 2011
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Theoretical work done at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has provided a key to understanding an unexpected magnetism between two dissimilar materials.
Condensed Matter
Oct 18, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bring two materials that are not themselves conductive into contact and, exactly at their interface, something remarkable happens: at that precise point, conduction is possible.
Condensed Matter
May 19, 2010
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Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from MIPT and China's Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research have computationally explored the stability of the bizarre compounds of hydrogen, lanthanum, ...
Superconductivity
Jan 17, 2024
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Ultrafast, multidimensional spectroscopy unlocks macroscopic-scale effects of quantum electronic correlations.
Quantum Physics
Feb 28, 2020
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A team of industrial and university researchers has shown that nanoparticles with sizes smaller than 10 nanometers – approximately the width of a cell membrane – can be successfully incorporated into scintillation devices ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 25, 2013
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