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Japanese researchers were able to rapidly and accurately predict the microstructure of Nickel – Aluminum (Ni-Al) alloys that are commonly used in the design of jet engine turbine parts. Predictions of the microstructure of these alloys have so far been time-consuming and expensive. The findings have the potential to greatly advance the design of materials … Read more
In spring 2018, the surprising discovery of superconductivity in a new material set the scientific community abuzz. Built by layering one carbon sheet atop another and twisting the top one at a “magic” angle, the material enabled electrons to flow without resistance, a trait that could dramatically boost energy efficient power transmission and usher in … Read more
Recent advances in solar cell technology use polycrystalline perovskite films as the active layer, with an increase to efficiency of as much as 24.2%. Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites are especially successful, and they have been used in optoelectronic devices including solar cells, photodetectors, light-emitting diodes and lasers. But the surface of hybrid perovskites is prone to … Read more
Nuclear power plants can withstand most inclement weather and do not emit harmful greenhouse gases. However, trafficking of the nuclear materials to furnish them with fuel remains a serious issue as security technology continues to be developed. Two physicists working out of the University of Florida and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Paul Johns and Juan … Read more
It was the most serious release of radioactive material since Fukushima 2011, but the public took little notice of it: In September 2017, a slightly radioactive cloud moved across Europe. Now, a study has been published, analyzing more than 1300 measurements from all over Europe and other regions of the world to find out the … Read more
By combining thin organic layers with thick layers of hybrid perovskite, researchers at Kyushu University in Japan have developed micrometer-thick organic light-emitting diodes that could improve the affordability and viewing angles of high-performance displays and televisions in the near future. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) use layers of organic molecules to efficiently convert electricity into light. … Read more
Scientists have used precisely tuned pulses of laser light to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule. The resulting “molecular movie” tracks one and a half revolutions of carbonyl sulphide (OCS) – a rod-shaped molecule consisting of one oxygen, one carbon and one sulphur atom – taking place within 125 trillionths of a second, at … Read more
The ion-trap quantum computation research group led by Professor Kihwan Kim in the Center of Quantum Information, Institute of Interdisciplinary Information (IIIS), Tsinghua University, has recently proposed and successfully demonstrated powerful more than two-qubit quantum gate operations in a trapped ion system. The work “Quantum Simulation of the Quantum Rabi Model in a Trapped Ion” … Read more
A low-cost, high-performance battery chemistry developed by University of Colorado Boulder researchers could one day lead to scalable grid-level storage for wind and solar energy that could help electrical utilities reduce their dependency on fossil fuels. The new innovation, described today in the journal Joule, outlines two aqueous flow batteries, also known as redox flow batteries, … Read more
‘One of the mysteries of high-superconductors is the possibility of being inhomogeneous. This means that the density of the pairs causing the superconductivity changes over space’, says physicist Milan Allan of LION, ‘we proved that, indeed, very inhomogeneous superconductors exist, by imaging them for the first time.’ The discovery netted Doohee Cho, Koen Bastiaans, Damianos … Read more