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Researchers Successfully 3D Print World’s Smallest Wine Glass Using New Technique

Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have achieved a remarkable feat by 3D printing the world's smallest wine glass. This extraordinary...

Unveiling Quantum Friction: Water and Graphene’s Extraordinary Interaction

In a groundbreaking revelation, scientists have discovered an extraordinary phenomenon called quantum friction that governs the flow of water on a surface of carbon...

Researchers Invent Cost-Effective Method for Large-Scale Nanomesh Production

A team of researchers led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has achieved a significant breakthrough in the synthesis of high-quality, semiconducting nanomesh....

Database of Quantum Materials Unlocks Potential for Technological Advancements

Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a groundbreaking database of understudied quantum materials, opening up new avenues for technological advancements....

How gas nanobubbles accelerate solid-liquid-gas reactions

Solid-liquid-gas reactions are common in a variety of natural and industrial phenomena, including hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell reactions, heterogeneous catalysis, and metal corrosion in ambient...

Reconfigurable silicon nanoantennas controlled by vectorial light field

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances considers reconfigurable silicon nanoantennas controlled by vectorial light field. High-index dielectric particles can be induced with intense electric and magnetic...

Scientists synthesize new and ultra-hard material

Russian scientists have synthesized a new ultra-hard material consisting of scandium-containing carbon. It consists of polymerized fullerene molecules with scandium and carbon atoms inside....

Scientists develop a powerful family of 2D materials

Tulane University School of Science and Engineering scientists have developed a new family of two-dimensional materials. This new innovation has promising applications which includes...

A biological motor that consumes chiral fuel drives rotation in one direction around a single covalent bond

University of Manchester scientists have created a molecular motor that consumes chiral fuel to drive rotation around a single covalent bond. The study was...

Researchers take a step toward creating an axle-rotor nanomachine

University of Washington researchers have taken a major step toward the creation of an axle-rotor nanomachine. The study was published in the journal Science. Scientists...

Simulating the attraction of zwitterionic ‘Janus Particles’

The Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology and The Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo scientists have used a new...

Researchers discover new magnetic phenomenon with industrial potential

Probing the world of the very small is a wonderland for physicists. At this nanoscale, materials as thin as 100 atoms are studied and...

Photocatalysts with built-in electric field helps to remove pollutants from water

Prof. Wu Zhengyan and his research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have recently introduced...

A pathway to high-quality ZnSe quantum wires

One-dimensional semiconductor nanowires with strong quantum confinement effect re of great interest for applications in advanced optoelectronics and photochemical conversions. Beyond the state-of-the-art Cd-containing...

In a sea of magic angles, ‘twistons’ keep electrons flowing through three layers of graphene

In the quantum materials community, the discovery of superconductivity in two ever-so-slightly twisted layers of graphene made waves a few years ago. Scientists had...