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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with Stanford and Purdue, have demonstrated a powerful new way to control heat at the nanoscale. Using carefully engineered metamaterials — microscopic gold patterns on thin membranes — they achieved up to four times more heat transfer across a tiny gap compared to conventional setups.

Rice University researchers have developed a simple new technique to create nanoscale patterns on hard chip materials at room temperature. By layering anisotropic alpha-molybdenum trioxide crystals on silica and exposing them to an electron beam, the team induced controlled stress that forms highly ordered nanoscale wrinkles or ripples.

Researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute have shown that electrons in ultra-clean graphene can be steered with high precision while keeping their spin information intact, a key requirement for future low power electronics and quantum devices.

Theorists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign address an experimental paradox by developing a general theory uniting a kind of order known as electronic nematicity with a crystal’s elasticity.

Relaxor ferroelectrics have been used in electronics and sensors for decades, but the source of their unique properties was a mystery until now.

Using donor–acceptor chemistry to create ultra-thin ‘nanoribbons’ - just a few atoms wide - could help to shape new electronic materials.