Team finds Wigner crystal—not Mott insulator—in ‘magic-angle’ graphene
Recently, a team of scientists led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a huge stir in the field of...
Scientists solve the golden puzzle of calaverite
Scientists from Russia and Germany have shed light on the crystalline structure of calaverite, foretelling the existence of a new gold compound previously unknown...
Graphene bilayer provides efficient transport and control of spins
University of Groningen physicists in collaboration with a theoretical physics group from Universität Regensburg have built an optimized bilayer graphene device that displays both...
Solvay’s Zeniva® PEEK Enables Advanced Spinal Cage from Japan
Solvay’s Zeniva® PEEK was selected by KiSCO Co. for the first non-metal lumbar cage for vertical interbody fusion made in Japan. This advanced spinal...
Record efficiency for perovskite-based light-emitting diodes
Efficient near-infrared (NIR) light-emitting diodes of perovskite have been produced in a laboratory at Linköping University. The external quantum efficiency is 21.6 percent, which...
On-demand room-temperature single photon array—a quantum communication breakthrough
Physicists at The City College of New York have used atomically thin two-dimensional materials to realize an array of quantum emitters operating at room...
Designing novel physical states in condensed matter physics
Dirac materials such as graphene and topological insulators (TIs) are known to have unique electronic and spintronic properties. We combine graphene with TIs in...
Spray-on antennas could unlock potential of smart, connected technology
The promise of wearables, functional fabrics, the Internet of Things, and their "next-generation" technological cohort seems tantalizingly within reach. But researchers in the field...
A 200-year-old guide to color, redesigned for the internet age
The nomenclature of colors we use today is really a machine language–numerical hex codes crafted to communicate with software on computers and printers. Before...
Super cheap earth element to advance new battery tech to the...
Most of today's batteries are made up of rare lithium mined from the mountains of South America. If the world depletes this source, then...
