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New Way to Store Data by Sliding Atomically Thin Metal layers over One Another

A Stanford-led team has invented a way to store data by sliding atomically thin layers of metal over one another, an approach that could pack more data into less space than silicon chips, while also using less energy.

30 Jun 2020

Study Discovers Massive Emission from Nanoscale Gap Between Gold Electrodes

Seeing light emerge from a nanoscale experiment didn't come as a big surprise to Rice University physicists. But it got their attention when that light was 10,000 times brighter than they expected.

30 Jun 2020

Polymer Relaxor Ferroelectricity Arises from Chain Conformation Disorders

A new fundamental understanding of polymeric relaxor ferroelectric behavior could lead to advances in flexible electronics, actuators and transducers, energy storage, piezoelectric sensors and electrocaloric cooling, according to a team of researchers at Penn State and North Carolina State.

30 Jun 2020

Study Shows Wave Transmission Relies on Arrangement of, Force Between Particles

Stress wave propagation through grainy, or granular, materials is important for detecting the magnitude of earthquakes, locating oil and gas reservoirs, designing acoustic insulation and designing materials for compacting powders.

30 Jun 2020

New Study Seeks to Produce Hybrid Materials with Desired Properties

Erlantz Lizundia-Fernandez, who lectures in the UPV/EHU's Department of Graphic Design and Engineering Projects, works with renewable polymers.

29 Jun 2020

Newly Developed Molecule can Help Create High-Quality Indium Nitride

Indium nitride is a promising material for use in electronics, but difficult to manufacture.

29 Jun 2020

Study Accurately Measures Density of Liquid Iron Under Adverse Conditions

Using the large synchrotron radiation facility SPring-8 in Japan, a collaboration of researchers from Kumamoto University, the University of Tokyo, and others from Japan and France have precisely measured the density of liquid iron under conditions similar to those at Earth's outer core: 1,000,000 atm and 4,000 degrees C.

29 Jun 2020