There's a known rule-breaker among materials, and a new discovery by an international team of scientists adds more evidence to back up the metal's nonconformist reputation. According to a new study led by scientists at the ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 26, 2017
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An electric current will not only heat a hybrid metamaterial, but will also trigger it to change state and fade into the background like a chameleon in what may be the proof-of-concept of the first controllable metamaterial ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 27, 2016
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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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A revolutionary new type of smart window could cut window-cleaning costs in tall buildings while reducing heating bills and boosting worker productivity.
Nanomaterials
Jan 20, 2016
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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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The tiny transistor is the heart of the electronics revolution, and Penn State materials scientists have just discovered a way to give this workhorse a big boost, using a new technique to incorporate vanadium oxide—a functional ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 19, 2015
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A team of researchers, including some from Michigan State University, is making a smart material smarter.
Engineering
Sep 15, 2015
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If you want to change a situation, it's often best to get to the heart of the matter. For chemists, this often means delving into the active sites of catalysts, which speed the reactions behind billions of dollars worth of ...
Materials Science
Aug 13, 2015
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Proximity effects in hybrid heterostructures, which contain distinct layers of different materials, allow one material species to reveal and/or control properties of a dissimilar species. Specifically, for a magnetic thin ...
General Physics
Apr 21, 2015
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When heated to just above room temperature, the electrical conductivity of vanadium dioxide (VO2) abruptly increases by a factor of 10,000. Experiments coupled with high-performance computation reveal how the unusually large ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 11, 2015
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