A Sea Worm’s Incredible “Bio-Metal” Jaws May Belong to an Entirely New Class of Material
A cross-section of a bristle worm jaw sample with the indentation testing sites labeled 1 to 11. Credit:…
Multimodal scanning-probe quantum sensing of quantum materials
Degen, C. L., Reinhard, F. & Cappellaro, P. Quantum sensing. Rev. Mod. Phys. 89, 035002 (2017). Article Google…
Excitons in van der Waals magnetic materials
Xu, X., Yao, W., Xiao, D. & Heinz, T. F. Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides.…
Quantum tunnelling and leakage current across two-dimensional materials
Backes, C. et al. Production and processing of graphene and related materials. 2D Mater. 7, 022001 (2020). Article …
Electron–phonon coupling and symmetry breaking in superconducting oxide interfaces near ferroelectric quantum criticality
Gastiasoro, M. N., Ruhman, J. & Fernandes, R. M. Superconductivity in dilute SrTiO3: a review. Ann. Phys. 417,…
Physicists Discover a Fundamental Limit to Electrical Resistance
An artist’s impression of the resistivity that results from cold atomic collisions. Researchers investigating interaction-induced resistivity of ultracold…
Glass Cells of Atoms Offer a New Path to Smarter, Cheaper Sensors
Newswise — UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — More accurate navigation systems and improved wireless communications may not come from…
Scientists Turn Ordinary Sunlight Into UV Light in Major Energy Breakthrough
A new solid-state material from Kyushu University turns visible light into high-energy UV at sunlight intensity. By attaching…
Creases as information bottlenecks in active elastic sheets
Odell, G. M., Oster, G., Alberch, P. & Burnside, B. The mechanical basis of morphogenesis: I. Epithelial folding…
Ultrafast, reconfigurable all-optical beam steering and spatial light modulation
Brongersma, M. L. et al. The second optical metasurface revolution: moving from science to technology. Nat. Rev. Electr.…
Two-dimensional Dirac half-metallic Cr2C sheets with a clean surface and high stability
Novoselov, K. et al. Electric field effect in atomically thin carbon films. Science 306, 666–669 (2004). Article CAS …
Europe’s first superconducting X-ray spectrometer uses 248 sensors
Researchers in Germany have brought Europe’s first and only superconducting TES-array X-ray spectrometer online at the BESSY II…