Light interacts with itself to form self-sustaining waves in an artificial topological material.
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Light interacts with itself to form self-sustaining waves in an artificial topological material. • Email to a friend • Engineers have created a light-powered catalyst that can break the strong chemical bonds in fluorocarbons, a group of synthetic materials that includes persistent environmental pollutants. • Email to a friend • 'Janus' nanorods convert light to heat that can destroy pollutants. • Email to a friend • Researchers report that a fabrication technique may offer a path toward mastering the often chaotic flow of heat carriers at the nanoscale in silicon and other semiconductors. • Email to a friend • Researchers create first efficient 2D material photodetector for telecom wavelengths. • Email to a friend • When hit with light, the film-thin materials come alive -- bending, rotating and even crawling on surfaces. • Email to a friend • Researchers have created a Bose-Einstein condensate with record speed, creating the fascinating phase of matter in about 100 femtoseconds. • Email to a friend • Electrons in chiral crystals, solid-state materials with definite handedness, can behave in unexpected ways. An interdisciplinary research team has realized now a theoretically predicted peculiar electronic state in a chiral compound, PtGa, from the class of topological materials. • Email to a friend • |
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