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Jan 23, 2024
How human robot collaboration will affect the manufacturing industry
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: materials, robotics/AI
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By Nitin Rawat, Manufacturing Head, Addverb
Robotics are employed to boost production and efficiency in the manufacturing sector, and they are capable of working in any hazardous setting. Robotic arms are also employed to perform effective work in the industries. It has been years since the introduction of collaborative robots in the manufacturing industry, and they have now been applied in several applications at manufacturing facilities. Robots these days are exceptionally programmable and controllable, allowing them to perform complex tasks using AI and automation.
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Jan 22, 2024
Experimental Evidence for a New Type of Magnetism
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: materials
Spectroscopic data suggest that thin films of a certain semiconducting material can exhibit altermagnetism, a new and fundamental form of magnetism.
Jan 21, 2024
Stretchable interfaces come in from the cold
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: materials, wearables
By transferring laser-induced graphene to a hydrogel film at cryogenic temperatures, stretchable graphene–hydrogel interfaces can be created for application in wearable and implantable electronics.
Jan 21, 2024
Black phosphorus propels spintronics with exceptional anisotropic spin transport
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: materials, particle physics
With modern electronic devices approaching the limits of Moore’s law and the ongoing challenge of power dissipation in integrated circuit design, there is a need to explore alternative technologies beyond traditional electronics. Spintronics represents one such approach that could solve these issues and offer the potential for realizing lower-power devices.
A collaboration between research groups led by Professor Barbaros Özyilmaz and Assistant Professor Ahmet Avsar, both affiliated with the Department of Physics and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS), has achieved a significant breakthrough by discovering the highly anisotropic spin transport nature of two-dimensional black phosphorus.
The findings have been published in Nature Materials.
Jan 19, 2024
Quantum physicists develop robust and ultra-sensitive topological quantum device
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: materials, quantum physics
A significant breakthrough has been achieved by quantum physicists from Dresden and Würzburg. They’ve created a semiconductor device where exceptional robustness and sensitivity are ensured by a quantum phenomenon. This topological skin effect shields the functionality of the device from external perturbations, allowing for measurements of unprecedented precision.
This remarkable advance results from the clever arrangement of contacts on the aluminum-gallium-arsenide material. It unlocks potential for high-precision quantum modules in topological physics, bringing these materials into the semiconductor industry’s focus. These results, published in Nature Physics, mark a major milestone.
Jan 19, 2024
Ultralight, strong, and self-reprogrammable mechanical metamaterials
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: materials, robotics/AI
Programmable matter can reconfigure and adapt autonomously, extending to high-performance mechanical materials at scale.
Jan 19, 2024
Tiny black holes from the dawn of time may be altering our planet’s orbit, new study suggests
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: cosmology, materials
A study suggests primordial black holes may make planets and moons near us wobble. If measured experimentally, this will provide the first concrete proof such objects exist.
Jan 19, 2024
New graphene semiconductor could revolutionize electronics
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: futurism, materials
The first working graphene semiconductor outperformed silicon, suggesting that the supermaterial could be the future of electronics.
Jan 18, 2024
For This Emergent Class of Materials, “Solutions Are the Problem”
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: biotech/medical, materials
Rice University materials scientists developed a fast, low-cost, scalable method to make covalent organic frameworks (COFs). Credit: Photo by Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University.
Materials scientists at Rice University have created an efficient, affordable, and scalable technique for producing covalent organic frameworks (COFs). These crystalline polymers are notable for their adjustable molecular structure, extensive surface area, and porosity, making them potentially valuable in areas like energy applications, semiconductor devices, sensors, filtration systems, and drug delivery.
“What makes these structures so special is that they are polymers but they arrange themselves in an ordered, repeating structure that makes it a crystal,” said Jeremy Daum, a Rice doctoral student and lead author of a study published in ACS Nano. “These structures look a bit like chicken wire ⎯ they’re hexagonal lattices that repeat themselves on a two-dimensional plane, and then they stack on top of themselves, and that’s how you get a layered 2D material.”