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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.

A sheet of twisted carbon nanotubes has revealed a hidden talent scientists suspected for decades but had never managed to measure.

Controlling heat flow is a major challenge for next-generation electronics and photonic devices. Now, an international team led by ICN2, UAB, TU/e, and McGill has discovered a completely new heat transport regime in ultrathin 2D semiconductors.

Penn physicists led by Bo Zhen have created hybrid light-matter particles that interact strongly enough to compute, pointing toward ultrafast, low-energy optical AI hardware.

A new approach to looking at solids provides theoretical limits on some of their properties