Diagnostics of quality of graphene and spatial imaging of reactivity centers on carbon surface

A convenient procedure to visualize defects on graphene layers by mapping the surface of carbon materials with an appropriate contrast agent.

Researchers match physical and virtual atomic friction experiments

By speeding up a real atomic force microscope and slowing down a simulation of one, researchers have conducted the first atomic-scale experiments on friction at overlapping speeds.

Superlubricity gets quantified for the first time

Scientists have not only uncovered the quantitative secret to understanding friction in materials, like graphite, they even invented a way to measure it.

Squeezing light for stronger vibrations

Precise control of interactions between light and vibrating mirrors at the level of single light particles could open a new field of complex quantum physical states.