Making a smart material smarter
A team of researchers, including some from Michigan State University, is making a smart material smarter.
Engineering
Sep 15, 2015
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Tunable materials clear the way for advanced optics
Now you see it, now you don't. In books and movies, wizards use magic spells to make the visible see-through.
Nanophysics
Jan 15, 2016
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Plasma Physics
Aug 1, 2017
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Beating the heat with nanoparticle films
It is a truth acknowledged throughout much of the world, that a car sitting in the sun on a summer's day must be sweltering. However, a partnership between Sandia National Laboratories and Santa Fe, New Mexico-based IR Dynamics ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 31, 2017
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Nanoantenna lighting-rod effect produces fast optical switches
A team of scientists, led by the University of Southampton, have produced a fast nanoscale optical transistor using gold nanoantenna assisted phase transition.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 21, 2016
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'Flipped' metal oxide cage can sort carbon dioxide from carbon monoxide
How do you separate carbon dioxide from carbon monoxide? One way, showcased by a new study from Kanazawa University, is to use a bowl of vanadium. More precisely, a hollow, spherical cluster of vanadate molecules can discriminate ...
Materials Science
Jan 8, 2019
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Fully inkjet-printed vanadium dioxide-based radio-frequency switches for flexible reconfigurable components
Inkjet-printed switches make multiple frequency bands easier and cheaper to manage in wireless devices.
Materials Science
Jan 24, 2019
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Delivering pressure with an unconventional crystal interface
The use of pressure to alter semiconductor properties is showing increasing promise in applications such as high-performance infrared sensors and energy conversion devices. With a novel and unconventional crystal interface, ...
Materials Science
Oct 29, 2018
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Ion pairings change honeycomb crystal states
Tohoku University researchers have observed a rare change in the structure of a mineral-like crystal that, if controlled, could lead to the development of new functional materials. The findings were reported in the Journal ...
Materials Science
Jan 25, 2022
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Multifunctional terahertz transparency of thermally oxidized vanadium metasurface over insulator metal transition
A research team, led by the Nano Optics Group within the Department of Physics at UNIST has reported achieving all-vanadium dioxide (VO2) multifunctional metasurfaces, which perform as a transparent window in the broadband ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 6, 2022
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