New electronic materials to carry more energy, more efficiently

New quantum materials will one day make smartphones 1,000 times faster while drastically increasing battery life. That is how researchers describe the impact new semimetal materials could have on future electronics.

'Deep learning' casts wide net for novel 2D materials

Engineers show faster techniques to model atom-flat materials for bottom-up design.

Some piezoelectric materials may be 'fakes'

Scientists have theoretically and experimentally demonstrated that the piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) technique can generate false positives when the piezoelectricity of a material is measured at the nanoscale.

Water that never freezes

Can water reach minus 263 degrees Celsius without turning into ice? Yes it can, if it is confined in nanometre-scale lipid channels.

At the 2D scale, isotopic composition has unforeseen effects on light emission

For the first time, researchers were able to grow an isotopically pure and highly uniform transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) material only six atoms thick.

Scientists synthesize new nanowires to improve high-speed communication

Researchers have synthesized new nanowires with high carrier mobility and fast infrared light (IR) response, which could help in high-speed communication.

A long-distance relationship in femtoseconds

Physicists observe how electron-hole pairs drift apart at ultrafast speed, but still remain strongly bound.