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Nanotube-based thermoelectrics open a new pathway to waste-heat energy conversion
A research team has identified a mechanism that could help overcome the efficiency limitations of thermoelectric devices that convert waste heat into electricity using a “hollow silicon nanotube” structure. The findings were published in Nano Energy, a leading international academic journal in the field of energy and nanotechnology.
Jun 243 min read


When order gives way to chaos: the turbulent birth of magnetic nanovortices
A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute, the Ferdinand Braun Institute, the University of Augsburg, and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has succeeded in directly imaging the effect of short current pulses on a skyrmion.
May 262 min read


Quantum metallurgy: Electron crystals deform and melt
Electrons can arrange into crystalline patterns that accumulate defects as they melt; controlling the degree of melting may advance superconductors and artificial neurons
May 115 min read


Exotic quantum phase dynamically connects vibrations that symmetry keeps apart
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg found that electronic fluctuations can dynamically bridge vibrations that symmetry would normally keep separate.
May 53 min read


The hidden structure behind a widely used class of materials
Relaxor ferroelectrics have been used in electronics and sensors for decades, but the source of their unique properties was a mystery until now.
Apr 304 min read


Double-slit experiment reveals hidden details between light and matter
Researchers build world’s smallest interferometer to measure how X-rays and atomic nuclei interact
Apr 263 min read
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