Tiny Crystal of Energy Is a Promising Future Source of Power on the Moon
This crystal of iron pyrite, just four hundredths of a millimeter in size, could function as the light absorbing layer of a tiny solar cell…
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Crystals Efficiently Convert Light to More Useful Wavelengths – Paving Way for Better Solar Cells
Solid-solution organic crystals have been brought into the quest for superior photon upconversion materials, which transform presently wasted long-wavelength light into more useful shorter wavelength…
New Ultrahard Diamond Glass Synthesized Using Carbon Buckyballs
It is the hardest known glass with the highest thermal conductivity among all glass materials. Carnegie’s Yingwei Fei and Lin Wang were part of an…
Creating Dynamic Symmetry in Diamond Crystals To Improve Qubits for Quantum Computing
MIT researchers develop a new way to control and measure energy levels in a diamond crystal; could improve qubits in quantum computers. Physicists and engineers…
Physicists Snap First Image of “Electron Ice” – Predicted More Than 90 Years Ago
Breakthrough demonstrates solid state of electrons predicted more than 90 years ago. More than 90 years ago, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted that at low densities…
This Pyramid Scheme Could Be Helpful: Controlled Growth of Tetrahedron-Shaped Nanoparticles
Rice chemists discover mechanism in controlled growth of tetrahedron-shaped nanoparticles. Nature clearly likes symmetry. Look at your own hands, for example. But sometimes nature produces…
Resurrecting Quasicrystals: Self-Healing Phenomenon Makes an Exotic Material Commercially Viable
Self-healing phenomenon could reduce defects that rendered quasicrystals impractical. A class of materials that once looked as if it might revolutionize everything from solar cells…
Singlet Exciton Fission: Breakthrough for More Efficient Solar Cells and Light-Based Technologies
Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) in Berlin, the MPSD and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg have provided important new insights into a key process for…
Kagome Lattice Superconductor Reveals a Complex “Cascade” of Quantum Electron States
In a rare non-magnetic kagome material, a topological metal cools into a superconductor through a sequence of novel charge density waves. Researchers have discovered a…
Wildly Counterintuitive: Dissolved Salt Can Reassemble at Nanoscale
Any cook worth their salt knows that a dash of the stuff — which consists mostly of the compound sodium chloride — will dissolve when…
Groundbreaking Technique Yields Extraordinary Results – Limits on Long-Theorized “Fifth Force” of Nature
Using a groundbreaking new technique at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international research collaboration led by NIST scientists has revealed previously…
Scientists Uncover New Opportunities for Light-Powered Battery and Fuel Cell Design
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba use ultraviolet light pulses to access ion conductor properties that are otherwise difficult to safely attain. Automotive and other…
Novel Metal Discovered Where Electrons Flow in the Same Way Water Flows in a Pipe
The findings confirm theoretical predictions that certain metallic specimens could support an electron-phonon liquid phase. A team of researchers from Boston College has created a…
Ghost Polaritons: New Type of Infrared Polaritons Discovered at the Surface of Bulk Crystals
An international team has reported in Nature the first observation of ghost polaritons, which are a new form of surface waves carrying nanoscale light strongly…
Scientists Discover New Crystal That Exhibits Exotic Form of Magnetism
This ain’t your grandma’s fridge magnet. An exotic form of magnetism has been discovered and linked to an equally exotic type of electrons, according to…
Low-Power Dynamic Manipulation of Single Nanoscale Quantum Objects
Led by Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Vanderbilt researchers are the first to introduce an approach for trapping and moving a nanomaterial known…
“Atom Swapping” Could Lead to Low-Cost, Ultra-Bright, Flexible Next Generation LED Lighting and Displays
An international group of researchers has developed a new technique that could be used to make more efficient low-cost light-emitting materials that are flexible and…
Machine Learning Using Collective Knowledge to Crack the Oxidation States of Crystal Structures
Chemical elements make up pretty much everything in the physical world. As of 2016, we know of 118 elements, all of which can be found…
