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May 9, 2025

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Stability Solution Brings Unique Form of Carbon Closer to Practical Application

May 9, 2025 — Carbyne, a one-dimensional chain of carbon atoms, is incredibly strong for being so thin, making it an intriguing possibility for use in next-generation electronics, but its extreme instability made ...

Turning Non-Magnetic Materials Magnetic With Atomically Thin Films

May 8, 2025 — The rules about magnetic order may need to be rewritten. An international team of researchers found that it was possible to turn a non-magnetic material into a magnetic material by slicing it into thin ...

Accordion Effect Makes Graphene Stretchable

May 6, 2025 — Graphene is a 'miracle material': mechanically extremely strong and electrically highly conductive, ideal for related applications. Using a unique method physicists have now made graphene drastically more stretchable by rippling it like an ...

A New Shape for Energy Storage: Cone and Disc Carbon Structures Offer New Pathways for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Apr. 29, 2025 — As global demand for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage surges, so does the need for affordable and sustainable battery technologies. A new study has introduced an innovative solution ...

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Breakthrough Extends Fuel Cell Lifespan Beyond 200,000 Hours, Paving the Way for Clean Long-Haul Trucking

Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new catalyst design capable of pushing the projected fuel cell catalyst lifespans to 200,000 hours. The research marks a ...

New Electronic 'Skin' Could Enable Lightweight Night-Vision Glasses

Apr. 23, 2025 — Engineers developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin 'skins' of electronic material that could be used in applications such as night-vision eyewear and autonomous driving in foggy ...

'Faster Charging, Longer Lifespan': Next-Generation Battery Breakthrough

Apr. 18, 2025 — A research team develops high-power, high-energy-density anode using nano-sized tin particles and hard ...

Scalable Graphene Membranes: A Leap for Carbon Capture

Apr. 11, 2025 — Scientists have developed a scalable method to produce porous graphene membranes that efficiently separate carbon dioxide. The breakthrough could significantly reduce the cost and footprint of carbon ...

Polymers With Flawed Fillers Boost Heat Transfer in Plastics

Apr. 4, 2025 — In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices -- ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent at dissipating heat -- a team of researchers made a discovery: ...

Scientists Pioneer Method to Tackle 'Forever Chemicals'

Mar. 31, 2025 — Researchers have developed an innovative solution to a pressing environmental challenge: removing and destroying per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly called 'forever chemicals.' A new ...

Good Vibrations: Scientists Discover a Groundbreaking Method for Exciting Phonon-Polaritons

Mar. 19, 2025 — Newly published research demonstrates a novel way of generating phonon-polaritons by making electrons collide with crystal lattice structures. The ...

Scientists Tune in to Rhombohedral Graphene's Potential

Mar. 17, 2025 — Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced ...

Twisting Atomically Thin Materials Could Advance Quantum Computers

Mar. 17, 2025 — Researchers show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons -- essentially, artificial atoms -- that can act as quantum information bits, or ...

Breaking the Surface: How Damage Reshapes Ripples in Graphene

Mar. 3, 2025 — Scientists discover how defects in the surface of two-dimensional sheets alter ripple effects, even freezing the sheet's motion ...

Modifying Graphene With Plasma to Produce Better Gas Sensors

Feb. 25, 2025 — Gas sensors are essential for personal safety and environmental monitoring, but traditional sensors have limitations in sensitivity and energy efficiency. Now, researchers have developed an improved ...

Magnetic Semiconductor Preserves 2D Quantum Properties in 3D Material

Feb. 19, 2025 — Physicists have developed a novel approach to maintain special quantum characteristics, even in 3D materials, with potential applications in optical systems and advanced ...

New Smart Sensor Takes the Pain out of Wound Monitoring

Feb. 11, 2025 — A major challenge in self-powered wearable sensors for health care monitoring is distinguishing different signals when they occur at the same time. Researchers addressed this issue by uncovering a ...

Physicists Measure a Key Aspect of Superconductivity in 'Magic-Angle' Graphene

Feb. 5, 2025 — Physicists measured how readily a current of electron pairs flows through 'magic-angle' graphene, a major step toward understanding how this unusual material superconducts. By determining ...

New Structures of a Critical Amyloid Protein Illuminated

Jan. 28, 2025 — The tiny protein known as transthyretin can cause big problems in the body when it misfolds after secretion. While healthy transthyretin moves hormones through blood and spinal fluid, misfolded ...

New Research Uncovers Exotic Electron Crystal in Graphene

Jan. 22, 2025 — Researchers have identified a new class of quantum states in a custom-engineered graphene structure. The study reports the discovery of topological electronic crystals in twisted bilayer -- trilayer ...

Harnessing Electromagnetic Waves and Quantum Materials to Improve Wireless Communication Technologies

Jan. 21, 2025 — A team of researchers has developed innovative methods to enhance frequency conversion of terahertz (THz) waves in graphene-based structures, unlocking new potential for faster, more efficient ...

Sensor Tech and Water Filtration: Graphene Made Permeable for Ions

Jan. 15, 2025 — A milestone in graphene research: Chemists have succeeded in controlling the passage of halide ions by deliberately introducing defects into a two-layer nanographene system. Their paper shows new ...

Revealing the 'True Colors' of a Single-Atom Layer of Metal Alloys

Jan. 10, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated that the direction of the spin-polarized current can be restricted to only one direction in a single-atom layer of a thallium-lead alloys when irradiated at room ...

Hidden Transport Pathways in Graphene Confirmed, Paving the Way for Next-Generation Device Innovation

Jan. 9, 2025 — Electron transport in bilayer graphene exhibits a pronounced dependence on edge states and a nonlocal transport mechanism, according to a recent ...

Novel Graphene Ribbons Poised to Advance Quantum Technologies

Jan. 9, 2025 — Researchers have recently achieved a significant breakthrough in the development of next-generation carbon-based quantum materials, opening new horizons for advancements in quantum electronics. The ...

Breakthrough in 2D Material Growth Opens Doors to Cleaner Energy and Next-Generation Technology

Jan. 8, 2025 — A breakthrough in decoding the growth process of Hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN), a 2D material, and its nanostructures on metal substrates could pave the way for more efficient electronics, cleaner ...

Discovery of New Class of Particles Could Take Quantum Mechanics One Step Further

Jan. 8, 2025 — In a study, physicists now observed a class of quantum particles called fractional excitons, which behave in unexpected ways and could significantly expand scientists' understanding of the ...

Researcher Discovers New Technique for Infrared 'Color' Detection and Imaging

Dec. 12, 2024 — A researcher has developed a new technique to detect long wave infrared (LWIR) photons of different wavelengths or 'colors.' The new detection and imaging technique will have applications ...

Discovery of New Growth-Directed Graphene Stacking Domains May Precede New Era for Quantum Applications

Dec. 10, 2024 — Researchers discovered that three-layer graphene can naturally self-organize into specific stacking patterns (ABA/ABC domains) during growth on silicon carbide, eliminating the need for manual ...

Particle That Only Has Mass When Moving in One Direction Observed for First Time

Dec. 10, 2024 — For the first time, scientists have observed a collection of particles, also known as a quasiparticle, that's massless when moving one direction but has mass in the other direction. The ...

Rethinking the Brain Pacemaker: How Better Materials Can Improve Signals

Dec. 10, 2024 — Researchers have created organic materials for brain and heart pacemakers, which rely on uninterrupted signal delivery to be effective. Using a plastic base known as polypropylene, the researchers ...

X-Ray Data-Enhanced Computational Method Can Determine Crystal Structures of Multiphase Materials

Dec. 6, 2024 — The new method can determine crystal structures underlying experimental data thus far difficult to ...

Researchers Demonstrate Self-Assembling Electronics

Dec. 2, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for self-assembling electronic devices. The proof-of-concept work was used to create diodes and transistors, and paves the way for self-assembling more ...

Physics Experiment Proves Patterns in Chaos in Peculiar Quantum Realm

Dec. 2, 2024 — Where do you see patterns in chaos? It has now been demonstrated in the incredibly tiny quantum realm. Researchers detail an experiment that confirms a theory first put forth 40 years ago stating ...