In groundbreaking materials research, a team led by University of Minnesota Professor K. Andre Mkhoyan has made a discovery that blends the best of two sought-after qualities for touchscreens and smart windows—transparency ...
Materials Science
Jan 15, 2021
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Materials engineers don't like to see line defects in functional materials.
Materials Science
May 27, 2021
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Although they found that graphene makes very good chemical sensors, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered an unexpected "twist"—that the sensors are better when the graphene is ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 29, 2011
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Waves do not spread in a disordered medium if there is less than one wavelength between two defects. Physicists from the universities of Zurich and Constance have now proved Nobel Prize winner Philip W. Anderson's theory ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 20, 2012
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Physicists from the Russian Academy of Sciences have described the mobility of line defects, or dislocations, in uranium dioxide. This will enable future predictions of nuclear fuel behavior under operating conditions. The ...
Condensed Matter
Dec 20, 2016
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