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HKU Engineering researchers develop new method for achieving controllable tuning and assessing instability in 2D materials for engineering applications

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have atomic-level thickness and excellent mechanical and physical properties, with broad application...

AI method radically speeds predictions of materials’ thermal properties

It is estimated that about 70 percent of the energy generated worldwide ends up as waste heat. If scientists could better predict how...

Light-induced Meissner effect in optically driven YBa2Cu3O6.48

Superconductivity is a fascinating phenomenon, which allows a material to sustain an electrical current without any loss. This collective...

Mapping the surfaces of MXenes atom by atom reveals new potential for the 2D materials

In the decade since their discovery at Drexel University, the family of two-dimensional materials called MXenes has shown a great deal of...

European XFEL reaches unmatched level in measurements of matter under extreme conditions

Researchers at European XFEL have developed an innovative method to study warm dense matter with unprecedented accuracy. This kind of...

SLAC’s high-speed electron camera uncovers a new ‘light-twisting’ behavior in an ultrathin material

Using SLAC’s instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED), one of the lab’s world-leading tools for ultrafast science,...

New method for determining the exchange energy of 2D materials

Researchers from the University of Basel have looked at how the ferromagnetic properties of electrons in the two-dimensional...

Researchers achieve dual-functional supramolecular materials

Versatile molecular frameworks called discrete supramolecular structures act like microscopic building blocks customizable for a wide...

Novel method enhances size-controlled production of luminescent quantum dots

Luminescence refers to the result of a process in which an object absorbs light at one wavelength and then re-emits it at another...

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