Rice University physicists discover that plasmonic metals can be prompted to produce “hot carriers” that in turn emit unexpectedly bright...

The symmetry-breaking phase transition in magic-angle graphene. The four ‘flavors’ of Dirac electrons filling their energy levels are represented by...

Para-aramid nanofiber sheets atop Twaron® sheets after fragment simulation projectile testing. Credit: Grant Gonzalez/Harvard SEAS Designing equipment to protect extremities...

Two photons are entangled, one in polarization and the other in orbital angular momentum — twisted light. By passing the...

The SpooQy-1 CubeSat contains a miniaturized quantum instrument that creates pairs of photons with the quantum property of entanglement. The...

Tightly packed crystals in a nanocrystal semiconductor: the model developed by ETH researchers describes every single atom. Courtesy: (Visualisation: ETH...

A solar steam generator has an upper layer (black) of light-absorbing carbon nanotubes, a middle layer (grey) of heat-insulating glass...

Indium oxide on a graphene layer. Credit: Vienna University of Technology Graphene consists of a single layer of carbon atoms....

The individual building blocks are heated on a silver surface in order to synthesize a porous graphene ribbon that exhibits...

Water is vital to the survival of life. However, water scarcity has become a major problem in modern society. Today,...