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Half a billion years ago nature evolved a remarkable trick: generating vibrant, shimmering colours via intricate, microscopic structures in feathers, wings and shells that reflect light in precise ways. Now, researchers from Trinity have taken a major step forward in harnessing it for advanced materials science. A team, led by Professor Colm Delaney from Trinity’s School of Chemistry and AMBER, the Research Ireland Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, ha

Stacking and twisting two graphene layers forms a moiré pattern, enabling superconductivity. Adding a third, differently twisted layer creates supermoiré patterns, altering electron flow. Harvard SEAS researchers, led by Yonglong Xie and Andrew Pierce, used a 100-nanometer resolution microscope to probe trilayer graphene. Published in Science, their findings reveal novel electronic states, highlighting supermoiré patterns’ role in engineering tunable materials for quantum tec

Scientists at Rice University and University of Houston have developed an innovative, scalable approach to engineer bacterial cellulose into high-strength, multifunctional materials. The study, published in Nature Communications, introduces a dynamic biosynthesis technique that aligns bacterial cellulose fibers in real-time, resulting in robust biopolymer sheets with exceptional mechanical properties.

In a growing and very competitive research landscape in quantum, this work demonstrates the versatility of the semiconductor–superconductor platform to realize and study new types of quantum states.