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January 29, 2025

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Make It Worth Weyl: Engineering the First Semimetallic Weyl Quantum Crystal

Jan. 23, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated an ideal Weyl semimetal, marking a breakthrough in a decade-old problem of quantum ...

New Optical Memory Unit Poised to Improve Processing Speed and Efficiency

Jan. 23, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new type of optical memory called a programmable photonic latch that is fast and scalable, enabling temporary data storage in optical processing systems and offering a high-speed solution for volatile memory using ...

Peeling Back the Layers: Exploring Capping Effects on Nickelate Superconductivity

Jan. 24, 2025 — Researchers used cutting-edge X-ray techniques to gain new insights into 'infinite-layer' nickelate ...

Scientists Harness the Power of 'Layered' Crystals for Energy Innovation

Jan. 21, 2025 — Scientists are unlocking the secrets of halide perovskites -- a material that's poised to reshape our future by bringing us closer to a new age of energy-efficient optoelectronics. Two physics professors are studying the material at the nanoscale: a ...

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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, ...

Polymer Research Shows Potential Replacement for Common Superglues With a Reusable and Biodegradable Alternative

Jan. 16, 2025 — Researchers have developed an adhesive polymer that is stronger than current commercially available options while also being biodegradable, tunable, ...

Robots Should Be Repurposed Rather Than Recycled to Combat Rising Scale of E-Waste, Scientists Warn

Jan. 16, 2025 — The robotics industry should be creating robots that could be reprogrammed and repurposed for other tasks once its life span is completed, ...

Diamond Continues to Shine: New Properties Discovered in Diamond Semiconductors

Jan. 14, 2025 — Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power electronics and ...

A New Optical Memory Platform for Super Fast Calculations

Jan. 15, 2025 — For decades there has been near constant progress in reducing the size, and increasing the performance, of the circuits that power computers and smartphones. But Moore's Law is ending as physical ...

Brain-Inspired Nanotech Points to a New Era in Electronics

Jan. 9, 2025 — Imagine a future where your phone, computer or even a tiny wearable device can think and learn like the human brain -- processing information faster, smarter and using less energy. A breakthrough ...

Engineers Develop Breakthrough Method for Aluminum Surfaces, Enabling Advancements in Cooling, Self-Cleaning and Anti-Icing Technologies

Jan. 15, 2025 — An international team of engineers has developed an innovative, scalable method for creating topography-patterned aluminum surfaces, enhancing liquid ...

Researchers Invent Soft, Bioelectronic Sensor Implant

Jan. 14, 2025 — Scientists describe their construction of complementary, internal, ion-gated, organic electrochemical transistors that are more amenable chemically, biologically and electronically to living tissues ...

Researchers Unlock New Insights Into Tellurene, Paving the Way for Next-Gen Electronics

Jan. 14, 2025 — Researchers have published a study describing how quasiparticles called polarons behave in tellurene, a nanomaterial first synthesized in 2017 that ...

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 ...

Big Leap Forward for Environmentally Friendly 'E-Textiles' Technology

Jan. 2, 2025 — A research team has shown wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) can be both sustainable and ...

New Method Turns E-Waste to Gold

Jan. 2, 2025 — A research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, to ...

Revolutionizing Heat Management With High-Performance Cerium Oxide Thermal Switches

Jan. 1, 2025 — Groundbreaking cerium oxide-based thermal switches achieve remarkable performance, transforming heat flow control with sustainable and efficient ...

Unveil the Secret of Stretchable Technology Through Color

Dec. 25, 2024 — A research team accelerates stretchable technology commercialization with world's first visualization of serpentine ...

Tiny, Wireless Antennas Use Light to Monitor Cellular Communication

Dec. 20, 2024 — Researchers developed a biosensing technique that eliminates the need for wires. Instead, tiny, wireless antennas use light to detect minute electrical signals in the solution around ...

Generate Electricity by Attaching Device to Your Clothes

Dec. 20, 2024 — A research team has developed a highly efficient wearable energy harvester that can power electronic devices using only body ...

Engineering Researchers Develop Revolutionary Diamond Fabrication Technology

Dec. 19, 2024 — A research team has developed a groundbreaking method for massively producing ultrathin and ultra-flexible diamond ...

Unlocking New Insights Into in-Plane Magnetic Field-Induced Hall Effects

Dec. 19, 2024 — In-plane magnetic fields are responsible for inducing anomalous Hall effect in certain films, report researchers. By studying how these fields change electronic structures, the team discovered a ...

Engineers Grow 'High-Rise' 3D Chips

Dec. 18, 2024 — Researchers can now fabricate a 3D chip with alternating layers of semiconducting material grown directly on top of each other. The method eliminates thick silicon substrates between the layers, ...

Physics: Current Generated by the Quantum Hall Effect Has Additional Magnetic Properties

Dec. 17, 2024 — The quantum Hall effect, a fundamental effect in quantum mechanics, not only generates an electric but also a magnetic current. It arises from the motion of electrons on an orbit around the nuclei of ...

New Discovery by Scientists Redefines Magnetism

Dec. 17, 2024 — Step into a world so tiny, it defies imagination -- the nanoscale. Picture a single strand of hair, now shrink it a million times. You've arrived. Here, atoms and molecules are the architects of ...

Breakthrough Brings Body-Heat Powered Wearable Devices Closer to Reality

Dec. 12, 2024 — A research team has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that could power next-generation wearable devices using body heat, eliminating the need for ...

Smallest Molecular Machine: Reversible Sliding Motion in Ammonium-Linked Ferrocene

Dec. 12, 2024 — Ferrocene is a key molecule for developing molecular machines. However, it readily decomposes on the surface of flat noble metal substrates, marking a significant challenge. Now researchers have ...

Unlocking Next-Gen Chip Efficiency: Confirming Thermal Insights for Tiny Circuits

Dec. 12, 2024 — A team of researchers unlock heat flow principles in ultra-thin metals, paving the way for faster, smaller, more efficient computer ...

Fast, Rewritable Computing With DNA Origami Registers

Dec. 11, 2024 — DNA stores the instructions for life and, along with enzymes and other molecules, computes everything from hair color to risk of developing diseases. Harnessing that prowess and immense storage ...

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 ...

Advancing the Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Gold Monolayers

Dec. 10, 2024 — Nanostructured two-dimensional gold monolayers offer possibilities in catalysis, electronics, and ...

The Last Missing Piece of Silicon Photonics

Dec. 9, 2024 — Scientists have developed the first electrically pumped continuous-wave semiconductor laser composed exclusively of elements from the fourth group of the periodic table -- the 'silicon ...