As the most widely used construction material, concrete is indispensable in the development of infrastructure, industry and housing. It's a mixture of aggregates (sand, gravel, crushed stone), water and cement, and whose ...
Materials Science
Dec 19, 2019
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Our use of battery-operated devices and appliances has been increasing steadily, bringing with it the need for safe, efficient, and high-performing power sources. To this end, a type of electrical energy storage device called ...
Materials Science
Dec 3, 2019
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Identifying a material's magnetic structure is a key to unlocking new features and higher performance in electronic devices. However, solving increasingly complex magnetic structures requires increasingly sophisticated approaches.
General Physics
Nov 7, 2019
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Biomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated that they can create stable materials from engineered disordered proteins by altering the environmental triggers that cause them to undergo phase transitions.
Materials Science
Oct 30, 2019
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Topological insulators are materials with astonishing properties: Electric current flows only along their surfaces or edges, whereas the interior of the material behaves as an insulator. In 2007, Professor Laurens Molenkamp ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 28, 2019
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Today's computer processors are increasingly pushed to their limits due to their physical properties. Novel materials could be the solution. Physicists from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have investigated ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 8, 2019
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The CRISPR genome-editing system is best-known for its potential to correct disease-causing mutations and add new genes into living cells. Now, a team from MIT and Harvard University has deployed CRISPR for a completely different ...
Biotechnology
Aug 23, 2019
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When traversing a solid material such as glass, a light wave can deposit part of its energy in a mechanical wave, leading to a color change of the light. This process, called "Brillouin scattering," has important technical ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 9, 2019
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A single and isolated electron has a clear electrical charge, magnetic moment and mass, and its free movement can be precisely predicted. Spanish scientists fabricated a nanoscale artificial material manipulating atoms one ...
General Physics
May 23, 2019
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Life today depends heavily on electricity. However, the unrelenting demand for electricity calls for increasingly greener and "portable" sources of energy. Although windmills and solar panels are promising alternatives, the ...
Materials Science
May 22, 2019
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