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May 14, 2024

This discovery could lead to creation of credit card-sized smartphones

Posted by in categories: materials, mobile phones

A materials breakthrough could lead to radically smaller phones that are more powerful and energy-efficient.

May 13, 2024

Robust superconductivity in magic-angle multilayer graphene family

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😗Year 2022


Superconductivity is reported in magic-angle twisted four-layer and five-layer graphene systems. While they find that all magic-angle graphene systems fit into a unified hierarchy of systems that share a set of flat bands in their electronic band structures, they also report that there is a key distinction between magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene and the other family members, related to the difference in the way the electrons move between the layers in a magnetic field.

May 11, 2024

The material difference: How biomaterials are reshaping medicine and patient outcomes

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, materials

This biomaterials Insights Report explores eight key areas transforming healthcare with self-healing implants, targeted drug delivery, and more.

May 10, 2024

Scientists Discover First-of-Its-Kind Molecule That Absorbs Greenhouse Gasses

Posted by in categories: materials, sustainability

A ‘cage of cages’ is how scientists have described a new type of porous material, unique in its molecular structure, that could be used to trap carbon dioxide and another, more potent greenhouse gas.

Synthesized in the lab by researchers in the UK and China, the material is made in two steps, with reactions assembling triangular prism building blocks into larger, more symmetrical tetrahedral cages – producing the first molecular structure of its kind, the team claims.

The resulting material, with its abundance of polar molecules, attracts and holds greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide (CO2) with strong affinity. It also showed excellent stability in water, which would be critical for its use in capturing carbon in industrial settings, from wet or humid gas streams.

May 10, 2024

MIT 6.S191: Recurrent Neural Networks, Transformers, and Attention

Posted by in categories: materials, robotics/AI

Borophene is already thinner and more conductive than graphene, and scientists have altered it to make it even more special.

May 10, 2024

Wonder material “more remarkable” than graphene has medical potential

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Borophene is already thinner and more conductive than graphene, and scientists have altered it to make it even more special.

May 10, 2024

Tony Seba: Billions of Robots & The Era of Superabundance

Posted by in categories: materials, robotics/AI

Questions to inspire discussion.

What is the potential impact of humanoid robots on human labor?
—Humanoid robots are on the verge of disrupting human labor across various industries, leading to a new era of material superabundance and prosperity within the next 10 to 20 years.

May 10, 2024

Astronomers spot ‘sleeping giant’ black hole Gaia BH3 in Milky Way

Posted by in categories: cosmology, materials

The newfound black hole, an intense, light-trapping abyss which has been named Gaia BH3, lurks just 1,926 light-years from Earth in the Aquila constellation. (That makes it the second closest black hole to Earth after Gaia BH1, which resides at 1,500 light-years away and is three times lighter than Gaia BH3.) The so-called “sleeping giant” — so named because unlike its ilk, the dormant black hole doesn’t appear to be shredding its companion star to pieces — birthed out of the imminent collapse of a once-massive star. It is the first direct link between a black hole and a progenitor star that was deprived of metals heavier than hydrogen and helium, according to the new study published in April in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The discovery confirms a leading theory of stellar evolution that posits high-mass black holes are remnants of stars that are low on metals. Such metal-poor stars have damped mass-eroding winds compared to their metal-rich counterparts, and thus have more material available to form heavier black holes. Astronomers normally time announcements of science discoveries at the same time as data release, in this case no sooner than early 2026, but “you cannot hide this kind of discovery from the community for two years,” says Panuzzo. “It is a unique case of publication based on the preliminary data because the data is exceptional and also something that’s very interesting for the community.”

May 10, 2024

Researchers can now accurately measure the emergence and damping of a plasmonic field

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“We employed this configuration for the first time to characterize the signal field emerging from a resonantly excited plasmonic sample,” says Francesca Calegari, lead scientist at DESY, physics Professor at UniversitĂ€t Hamburg and a spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence “CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter.”

The difference of the reconstructed pulse with plasmon interaction to the reference pulse allowed the scientists to trace the emergence of the plasmon and its fast decay which they confirmed by electrodynamic model calculations.

“Our approach can be used to characterize arbitrary plasmonic samples in and in the far-field,” adds CUI scientist Prof. Holger Lange. Additionally, the precise characterization of the laser field emerging from nanoplasmonic materials could constitute a new tool to optimize the design of phase-shaping devices for .

May 9, 2024

Ultrasound experiment identifies new superconductor

Posted by in categories: materials, physics

With pulses of sound through tiny speakers, Cornell physics researchers have clarified the basic nature of a new superconductor.

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