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New Method can Use Electrons in Plasma to Produce Thin Metal Films

Computers, mobile phones and all other electronic devices contain thousands of transistors, linked together by thin films of metal. Scientists at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a method that can use the electrons in a plasma to produce these films.

8 May 2020

First-Ever Measurement of Infinitesimal Change in Mass of Individual Atoms

A new door to the quantum world has been opened: when an atom absorbs or releases energy via the quantum leap of an electron, it becomes heavier or lighter.

8 May 2020

Researchers Create Strong Coupling Between Two Systems over Greater Distance

Quantum technology is currently one of the most active fields of research worldwide. It takes advantage of the special properties of quantum mechanical states of atoms, light, or nanostructures to develop, for example, novel sensors for medicine and navigation, networks for information processing and powerful simulators for materials sciences.

8 May 2020

Study of Transient Collision Resonances of Atomic and Molecular Collisions

Recently, Prof. YANG Xueming from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. YANG Tiangang from the Southern University of Science and Technology discussed significant advances in the study of quantum resonances in atomic and molecular collisions at near absolute zero temperature.

8 May 2020

Study Offers New and Detailed Insights into Complex Fluids

Skoltech scientists in collaboration with researchers from the University of Stuttgart, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Russian Quantum Center achieved the first systematic experimental measurements of the electrical conductivity of pure interfacial water, hence producing new results significantly extending our knowledge of interfacial water.

8 May 2020

New Method to Visualize Variations in Polymers that Arise with Age

Modern society relies on polymers, such as polypropylene or polyethylene plastic, for a wide range of applications, from food containers to automobile parts to medical devices.

7 May 2020

New Technology to Fabricate Large-Area, Wavy Silver Nanowire Network Electrode

A Korean research team has developed a large-scale stretchable and transparent electrode for the stretchable display.

7 May 2020

Analysis of Atomic Changes in Special Gold Alloy upon Cooling to Glassy State

Unless you happen to be a materials scientist, which most of us after all are not, the term 'glasses' probably brings to mind such things as window panes, drinking glasses or spectacles. Hardly anyone will think of metals.

7 May 2020

Optical Polarization and Reading of Electronic Spin Color Centers in Boron Nitride

Quantum technology was once considered to be something very expensive and available only to the largest research centers. However, in our days it's widely used in many applications, and one of them is magnetic resonance imaging.

7 May 2020

Experimental Simulation of Many-Body Self-Organization Based on Rydberg Atoms

The Group of Academician GUO Guangcan has made significant progress in the research of Rydberg Atom: Prof. SHI Baosen, Prof. DING Dongsheng and Prof. Charles Adams and others have carried out an experimental simulation of many-body self-organization based on Rydberg Atoms, the main results of which were published on April 29, 2020 in the famous journal of Physics Review X.

7 May 2020

Study Offers Insight into Mechanisms Driving Stability, Activity of Materials

Scientists discover dynamics of electrochemical interfaces at the atomic scale.

7 May 2020

New Technology to Separate Rare Earth Metals Without any Environmental Impact

The technology – developed and patented from the laboratory of Nien-Hwa Linda Wang, Purdue's Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor of Chemical Engineering – has successfully shown to separate the rare earth metals without the devastating environmental effects of conventional acid based methods with high yield and purity.

7 May 2020