Supercharging vinegar with nanotech to create novel antimicrobial
Fast aerobic fermentation stainless steel vessels. Image by Braveheart, CC BY-SA 4.0. A groundbreaking treatment that supercharges ordinary…
Relativistic Mott transition in twisted WSe2 tetralayers
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Large moiré superstructure of stacked incommensurate charge density waves
Cao, Y. et al. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 43–50 (2018). Article CAS PubMed Google…
Scientists Unlock New Way To Control Exotic Light Waves in 2D Materials
Illustrative scenario of propagation of DPP, at Terahertz frequencies, induced by the tip of a s-SNOM microscope in…
Scientists Unlock Diamond’s Quantum Potential
Illustration showing photon emission from a nanodiamond and light directed by a bullseye antenna. Credit: SciTechDaily.com, inspired by…
Chemists Grow Diamonds With an Electron Beam
Researchers have discovered a low-pressure, electron-beam method to turn adamantane into defect-free nanodiamonds. Credit: Stock Synthetic diamond research…
Structural constraint integration in a generative model for the discovery of quantum materials
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Ultraconfined terahertz phonon polaritons in hafnium dichalcogenides
Li, N. et al. Direct observation of highly confined phonon polaritons in suspended monolayer hexagonal boron nitride. Nat.…
Scientists Create Magnetic Nanohelices To Control Electron Spin at Room Temperature
The twisting direction of metal nanoparticles is controlled to be right- or left-handed by adding chiral molecules, which…
Scientists Watch an Atom’s Nucleus Flip in Real Time for the First Time
Artist’s impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum…
UCLA Engineers Build Room-Temperature Quantum-Inspired Computer
Scientists have built a physics-inspired computing system that uses oscillators, rather than digital processing, to solve complex optimization…
Space-time crystals from particle-like topological solitons
Chaikin, P. M. & Lubensky, T. C. Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000). Yeh, P.…