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July 26, 2024

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'Kink State' Control May Provide Pathway to Quantum Electronics

July 25, 2024 — The key to developing quantum electronics may have a few kinks. According to researchers, that's not a bad thing when it comes to the precise control needed to fabricate and operate such devices, including advanced sensors and lasers. The ...

Researchers Develop New Method for Achieving Controllable Tuning and Assessing Instability in 2D Materials for Engineering Applications

July 22, 2024 — Two-dimensional (2D) materials have atomic-level thickness and excellent mechanical and physical properties, with broad application prospects in fields such as semiconductors, flexible devices, and ...

Single Atoms Show Their True Color

July 4, 2024 — A new technique reveals single atom misfits and could help design better semiconductors used in modern and future ...

Strengthener for Graphene

June 14, 2024 — Layers of carbon atoms in a honeycomb array are a true supermaterial: their unusually high conductivity and favorable mechanical properties could further the development of bendable electronics, new batteries, and innovative composite materials for ...

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A New Material Derived from Graphene Improves the Performance of Neuroprostheses

July 10, 2024 — Neuroprostheses allow the nervous system of a patient who has suffered an injury to connect with mechanical devices that replace paralyzed or ...

A 2D Device for Quantum Cooling

July 5, 2024 — Engineers have created a device that can efficiently convert heat into electrical voltage at temperatures lower than that of outer space. The innovation could help overcome a significant obstacle to ...

Enhancing Superconductivity of Graphene-Calcium Superconductors

May 20, 2024 — Researchers experimentally investigate the impact of introducing high-density calcium on the superconductivity of calcium-intercalated bilayer ...

Towards Next-Gen Functional Materials: Direct Observation of Electron Transfer in Solids

June 4, 2024 — Nanoscale electron transfer (ET) in solids is fundamental to the development of multifunctional materials. However, ET in solids is not yet clearly ...

Graphene Gets Cleaned Up

May 29, 2024 — Engineers establish the link between oxygen and graphene quality and present an oxygen-free chemical vapor deposition method (OF-CVD) that can reproducibly create high-quality samples for large-scale ...

Scientists Develop New Battery-Free Lactic Acid Sensor

May 22, 2024 — Scientists have created a new type of chemosensor (demonstrated for lactic acid sensing) which functions with electricity but without the need for reference electrodes or battery ...

Ion Irradiation Offers Promise for 2D Material Probing

May 17, 2024 — Two-dimensional materials such as graphene promise to form the basis of incredibly small and fast technologies, but this requires a detailed understanding of their electronic properties. New research ...

2D All-Organic Perovskites: Potential Use in 2D Electronics

May 9, 2024 — Perovskites are among the most researched topics in materials science. Recently, a research team has solved an age-old challenge to synthesize all-organic two-dimensional perovskites, extending the ...

'Like a Nanoscopic Moon Lander': Scientists Unlock Secret of How Pyramidal Molecules Move Across Surfaces

Apr. 25, 2024 — Scientists have watched a molecule move across a graphite surface in unprecedented detail. It turns out this particular molecule moves like a Moon ...

Condensed Matter Physics: Novel One-Dimensional Superconductor

Apr. 24, 2024 — In a significant development in the field of superconductivity, researchers have successfully achieved robust superconductivity in high magnetic fields using a newly created one-dimensional (1D) ...

Rubber-Like Stretchable Energy Storage Device Fabricated With Laser Precision

Apr. 24, 2024 — Scientists use laser ablation technology to develop a deformable ...

Magnetic With a Pinch of Hydrogen

Apr. 22, 2024 — Magnetic two-dimensional materials consisting of one or a few atomic layers have only recently become known and promise interesting applications, for example for the electronics of the future. So ...

More Economical and Sustainable Rechargeable Batteries

Apr. 22, 2024 — Lithium salts make batteries powerful but expensive. An ultralow-concentration electrolyte based on the lithium salt LiDFOB may be a more economical and more sustainable alternative. Cells using ...

Development of Organic Semiconductors Featuring Ultrafast Electrons

Apr. 19, 2024 — Collaboration has led to the successful observation of these ultrafast electrons within conducting two-dimensional ...

Atom-by-Atom: Imaging Structural Transformations in 2D Materials

Apr. 17, 2024 — Silicon-based electronics are approaching their physical limitations and new materials are needed to keep up with current technological demands. Two-dimensional (2D) materials have a rich array of ...

A Single Atom Layer of Gold: Researchers Create Goldene

Apr. 16, 2024 — For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. The material has been termed goldene. According to researchers, this has given the gold new ...

Quantum Electronics: Charge Travels Like Light in Bilayer Graphene

Apr. 16, 2024 — An international research team has demonstrated experimentally that electrons in naturally occurring double-layer graphene move like particles without any mass, in the same way that light travels. ...

New Technique Lets Scientists Create Resistance-Free Electron Channels

Apr. 9, 2024 — A team has taken the first atomic-resolution images and demonstrated electrical control of a chiral interface state -- an exotic quantum phenomenon that could help researchers advance quantum ...

Chemistry Researchers Modify Solar Technology to Produce a Less Harmful Greenhouse Gas

Apr. 2, 2024 — Researchers are using semiconductors to harvest and convert the sun's energy into high-energy compounds that have the potential to produce environmentally-friendly ...

Quantum Interference Could Lead to Smaller, Faster, and More Energy-Efficient Transistors

Mar. 25, 2024 — Scientists made a single-molecule transistor using quantum interference to control electron flow. This new design offers high on/off ratio and stability, potentially leading to smaller, faster, and ...

Bioelectronic Mesh Capable of Growing With Cardiac Tissues for Comprehensive Heart Monitoring

Mar. 22, 2024 — A team of engineers has recently built a tissue-like bioelectronic mesh system integrated with an array of atom-thin graphene sensors that can simultaneously measure both the electrical signal and ...

A New World of 2D Material Is Opening Up

Mar. 14, 2024 — Materials that are incredibly thin, only a few atoms thick, exhibit unique properties that make them appealing for energy storage, catalysis and water purification. Researchers have now developed a ...

Spiral Wrappers Switch Nanotubes from Conductors to Semiconductors and Back

Mar. 12, 2024 — By wrapping a carbon nanotube with a ribbon-like polymer, researchers were able to create nanotubes that conduct electricity when struck with low-energy light that our eyes cannot see. In the future, ...

Using Light to Precisely Control Single-Molecule Devices

Mar. 5, 2024 — Researchers flip the switch at the nanoscale by applying light to induce bonding for single-molecule device ...

Umbrella for Atoms: The First Protective Layer for 2D Quantum Materials

Mar. 1, 2024 — As silicon-based computer chips approach their physical limitations in the quest for faster and smaller designs, the search for alternative materials that remain functional at atomic scales is one of ...

Quantum Films on Plastic

Feb. 28, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that thin films of elemental bismuth exhibit the so-called non-linear Hall effect, which could be applied in technologies for the controlled use of terahertz ...

Graphene Research: Numerous Products, No Acute Dangers Found by Study

Feb. 22, 2024 — Graphene is an enormously promising material. It consists of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern and has extraordinary properties: exceptional mechanical strength, ...

Electrons Become Fractions of Themselves in Graphene

Feb. 21, 2024 — Physicists have observed fractional quantum Hall effect in simple pentalayer graphene. The finding could make it easier to develop more robust quantum ...

New Non-Toxic Method for Producing High-Quality Graphene Oxide

Feb. 20, 2024 — Researchers have found a new way to synthesize graphene oxide which has significantly fewer defects compared to materials produced by most common method. Similarly good graphene oxide could be ...

Fresh Meat: New Biosensor Accurately and Efficiently Determines Meat Freshness

Feb. 20, 2024 — Despite the technological advances keeping meat fresh for as long as possible, certain aging processes are unavoidable. Adenosine triphosphate is a molecule produced by breathing and responsible for ...