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The new moiré materials also had the potential to be engineered to carry ferroelectricity and polarisation in many complex ways – both in the individual layers and chiral textures at nanoscale.

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

A new paper in Nature Chemistry describes a molecular material that combines a stable internal magnetic structure with almost no external magnetic field. This could prove relevant for energy efficient electronics and spintronics

2D materials are widely seen as a promising path toward better computer chips. Researchers at TU Wien now show: some of these materials are unsuitable due to an underestimated effect. But there are alternatives

The devices represent a key step toward practical quantum sensing, with applications in biomedical sensing, materials characterization, and more.

Analysis of a first-of-its-kind experiment reveals missing pieces in the decades-old theory of superconductivity.

Nanohole-induced confinement and charge neutralization deliver bright, stable quantum emission without electrical gating

Findings reveal how molecular defects can enhance light conversion efficiency

A Würzburg research team has achieved the world’s first experimental confirmation of the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) universality class in two-dimensional quantum systems. Using polaritons in a precisely engineered GaAs semiconductor cooled to near absolute zero, they tracked the nonlinear, random growth process in both space and time—proving the famous 1986 growth equation holds in 2D.

Rice University chemists led by Raúl Hernández Sánchez have enabled neodymium to bind dioxygen via pi interactions using a custom ligand “basket.” This breakthrough created rare, highly reactive lanthanide-oxo species, mimicking iron-oxo centers in biology. The advance could open new synthetic routes for high-value chemicals across f-block metals. (JACS)

An international team at GSI/FAIR has observed for the first time an exotic bound state of a carbon-11 nucleus and an η′ meson, held together solely by the strong interaction. The discovery confirms a 20-year-old prediction and reveals that the η′ meson mass decreases inside nuclear matter, offering new insight into the origin of mass in strongly interacting particles.