Scientists have developed a system to mold near-field light - opening the door to unprecedented control over this powerful, largely unexplored type of light.
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Scientists have developed a system to mold near-field light - opening the door to unprecedented control over this powerful, largely unexplored type of light. • Email to a friend • Copper, a metal commonly used throughout history for its antibacterial properties, is being utilized by researchers to solve a problem very relevant today: making reusable face masks safer and more comfortable for daily use. • Email to a friend • Current synthetic membranes are effectively microscopic sieves, but researchers hope that in the future they will be able to choose which molecules to let through. • Email to a friend • Scientists used state-of-the-art computational tools to model the chaotic behavior of Planckian, or 'strange', metals. This behavior has long intrigued physicists, but they have not been able to simulate it down to the lowest possible temperature until now. • Email to a friend • Researchers uncovered a new class of magnet that exhibits novel quantum effects that extend to room temperature. • Email to a friend • Researchers have fabricated photodetectors on paper by mimicking the action of drawing/writing with a pencil on standard paper. The results indicate that this process can be employed with other layered materials like the semiconducting molybdenum disulfide to fabricate electronic devices on paper. There are many layered materials (so called van der Waals materials) that have similar mechanical properties to graphite and thus are susceptible of being cleaved upon mechanical rubbing against paper substrates. • Email to a friend • Scientists demonstrate that nanoscale infrared imaging - which is established as a surface-sensitive technique - can be employed for chemical nanoidentification of materials that are located up to 100 nm below the surface. • Email to a friend • |
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