When the scanning tunnelling microscope made its debut in the 1980s, the result was an...

By Sandra Helsel posted 23 Feb 2023 Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, Co-founder and CEO, Nu Quantum, will speak on “Transition...

Established surface-science tools could help industrial scientists to fast-track the evaluation of advanced materials for energy-storage applications ...

From Brunel to Banksy, the UK city of Bristol has a history of people unafraid to think big while doing things...

Disordered materials can “remember” deformations they have previously experienced – and they can be made...

A new quasiparticle that is part matter, part light has emerged in experiments by researchers at the City College of New York, US, who...

Natural layered materials such as bone and mother-of-pearl have many functions. Alongside helping organisms protect and defend themselves, some, such as the shells of...

An international team of physicists has observed electrons flowing in whirlpool-like patterns known as vortices for the first time. Long predicted, but never before...

Excitonic insulators – an exotic type of matter with a ground state comprising bound electron–hole pairs – have been made by two independent research...

Researchers at Rice University in the US have proposed a new way of controlling the magnetic and electronic properties of single-layer two-dimensional materials that...

For the first time, researchers in the UK and Japan have identified the locations where materials known as perovskites begin to degrade. This degradation,...

Two new processes for producing different types of graphyne – a 2D allotrope of carbon that includes triple bonds – have been reported in...