New organic liquid provides efficient phosphorescence
Molecular structure and photographs of the phosphorescent molecular liquid. Credit: Yosuke Tani The nostalgic “glow-in-the-dark” stars that twinkle…
Polaritons enable tunable and efficient molecular charge transfer across broader spectrum of light
CT processes in uncoupled and strongly coupled donor–acceptor systems. Credit: Nature Nanotechnology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41565-025-01995-0 Polaritons are quasiparticles…
Fabrication technique opens door to new materials for quantum hardware
Superconducting resonators store electromagnetic energy for quantum computers. Credit: Iliya Shiravand and Moeid Jamalzadeh Researchers have demonstrated a…
A light-programmable, dynamic ultrasound wavefront
Fig. 1. Optically Programmable Array of Transducers (OPAT) uses light to shape ultrasonic fields. Credit: Rahul Goyal, from…
Crystalline material conducts heat even worse than glass and water—and that’s promising
Postdoc Peter Skjøtt Thorup from Aarhus University holds a small sample of the crystalline material AgGaGe3Se8, which he…
Quantum emitter discovery in diamonds enables a new type of coupling
An NV-hosting nanodiamond on an AFM tip probes a topological waveguide. Suppressing RCP emission at 710 nm reveals…
Particle detector proves precision as it prepares to probe properties of quark-gluon plasma
Caption:The sPHENIX detector is the newest experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and is…