Scientists reveal how nanomaterials inspired by insect wings are able to destroy bacteria on contact — by stretching, slicing or tearing them apart. The wings…
Dirty Carbon Reveals a Sophisticated Side Tar, the everyday material that seals seams in our roofs and driveways, has an unexpected and unappreciated complexity, according…
Princeton researchers detect a supercurrent — a current flowing without energy loss — at the edge of a superconductor with a topological twist. A discovery…
Uniform nanometer-thick MXene* films can be used as electromagnetic shields in flexible electronics and 5G telecommunication devices. A Korean research team has developed a technology…
University of Groningen physicists have visualized hydrogen at the titanium/titanium hydride interface using a transmission electron microscope. Using a new technique, they succeeded in visualizing…
Roughness, the presence of irregularities on a surface, is commonly associated to slower motion and stickiness. This is true at different length scales: at human…
Two Teams of INRS Join Forces and Develop a New Ecological Process to Degrade Atrazine Atrazine is one of the most widely used pesticides in…
Ultrafast Stimulated Emission Microscopy of Single Nanocrystals The ability to investigate the dynamics of single particle at the nano-scale and femtosecond level remained an unfathomed…
Joshua Agar’s AI technique has allowed him and his team to identify and visualize geometrically driven differences in ferroelectric domain switching, an important advancement for…
Engineers have characterized the thermal energy conversion mechanism in the lattice of an advanced nanomaterial called chalcogenide perovskite and demonstrated its ‘tunability’ — important for…
New research by engineers at the University of Illinois combines atomic-scale experimentation with computer modeling to determine how much energy it takes to bend multilayer…
The ability to enhance night vision capabilities could have implications in improving what can be seen in space, in chemical and biological disaster areas, and…
Discovery yields new quantitative description of unusual behavior relevant to materials used in electronics, medicine, telecommunications, and more. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s…
Materials scientists who work with nano-sized components have developed ways of working with their vanishingly small materials. But what if you could get your components…
New research reveals possible applications of nickel, from data storage to biosensors. When scientists and engineers discover new ways to optimize existing materials, it paves…
A very special kind of light is emitted by tungsten diselenide layers. The reason for this has been unclear. Now an explanation has been found…
How to control friction in topological insulators. Topological insulators are innovative materials that conduct electricity on the surface, but act as insulators on the inside….
Rice scientists lead the effort to improve the manufacture of valuable 2D material. Borophene has a nearly perfect partner in a form of silver that…