Researchers around the world are searching for new synthetic materials with special properties like superconductivity—that is, the conduction of electric...

Even with a large proportion of the working population still working from home and the use of staggered work times,...

Hikers, soldiers and school children all know the burden of a heavy backpack. But now, researchers have developed a prototype...

       Picture of nanoparticles. Credit: Thakur et al. / Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects, 2020 A team of researchers from...

The new single-photon source is based on excitation of a quantum dot (shown as a bulge on the bottom left),...

STEM (scanning transmission electron microscopy) image of a one-dimensional array of F4TCNQ molecules (yellow-orange) on a gate-tunable graphene device. Credit:...

Researchers have found a way to use light and a single electron to communicate with a cloud of quantum bits...

                Alloyed nanocrystals. Credit: Mei Wang for UMD. Catalysts, often metal nanoparticles, are...

An optically excited gas of electronic carriers confined to the planes of the layered van-der Waals semiconductor tungsten diselenide is...

A wafer integrated with 2-D material. Credit: Arne Quellmalz, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Experimental methods for transferring grown 2-D...