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How Atom-Thin Materials Are Revolutionizing Chips

An artist’s depiction of a missing chalcogen atom in the middle layer of a bulk transition-metal dichalcogenide. Credit: Kyle Palmer…

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Rice’s Big Bet on Advanced 2D Materials

Rice University secures federal funding to enhance advanced materials research focusing on improving 2D materials production, studying composite material interfaces,…

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Scientists Have Developed a New Type of Glass With Unique and Even Contradictory Properties

Facile preparation of peptide glass at room temperature using standard lab equipment. Credit: Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University researchers…

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Surprising Vortex Uncovered – Supercomputers Reveal Hidden Secrets of Solar Technology

Skyrmion-like large hole polaron in the halide double perovskite Cs2AgBiBr6. The arrows show the atomic displacements, and the hole is…

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The Key to Advanced Electronics

A new method using rotaxane structures to cross-link graphene layers enhances the flexibility, strength, and conductivity of graphene films, with…

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MIT Physicists Forge a Five-Lane Quantum Superhighway for Electrons

By Elizabeth A. Thomson, MIT Materials Research Laboratory June 28, 2024 Artist’s rendition of a newly discovered superhighway for electrons…

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Discovery of New Membrane Behavior Could Lead to Unprecedented Separations

Nanoscale solutes with only slight differences in size can be separated by membranes with identical pores — if they have…

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Ultrafast Light Unlocks New Properties in Low-Dimensional Materials

Recent studies within the Dynacom framework have shown that low-dimensional materials, composed of atomically thick layered tubes, display new properties.…

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Princeton Engineers Develop New Cement That Is 17x More Crack-Resistant

Engineers at Princeton have developed a cement composite inspired by nacre, or mother of pearl, making it 17 times more…

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TiS3 Nanoribbons Become Superconductors Under Pressure

Researchers have discovered that applying pressure to nanoribbons of titanium and sulfur (TiS3) transforms them from insulators to superconductors that…

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