/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. In an advance at the intersection of neuromorphic engineering and photonics, researchers have developed an ionic-electronic photodetector that not only detects light but also performs in-sensor image processing, offering the potential to surpass some limitations of human vision—including color vision deficiencies. /news/2025-08-ionic-electronic-photodetector-sensor-vision.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:16:04 EDT news673524961 UC Riverside researchers have unveiled a powerful new imaging technique that exposes how cutting-edge materials used in solar panels and light sensors convert light into electricity—offering a path to better, faster, and more efficient devices. /news/2025-07-imaging-method-reveals-generate-electricity.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Optics & Photonics Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:24:48 EDT news673161883 Finding new materials with useful properties is a primary goal for materials scientists, and it's central to improving technology. One exciting area of current research is 2D materials—super-thin substances made of just a few layers of atoms, which could power the next generation of electronic devices. In a new study, researchers at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) developed a new way to predict 2D materials that might transform electronics. The results were published in Chemistry of Materials on July 7. /news/2025-07-method-2d-materials-generation-electronics.html Materials Science Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:50:02 EDT news672409456 A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered by chemists—and exemplifies how the second quantum revolution is fostering transdisciplinary collaborations that bridge physics, chemistry, and biology to tackle fundamental questions. /news/2025-06-quantum-spirals-programmable-platform-ways.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:00:03 EDT news668940541 A pioneering partnership between researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has produced a novel nanopore sensing platform for single-biomolecule detection. Their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pave the way for solid-state, label-free DNA sequencing technologies with implications for precision medicine. /news/2025-06-nanopore-platform-paves-solid-state.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:13:04 EDT news668963581 A new bio-based hot glue derived from a byproduct of the wood pulp industry beats traditional epoxy resins and commercial hot-melt glues in terms of adhesive performance. /news/2025-06-bio-based-hot-industrial-leftovers.html Polymers Materials Science Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:50:03 EDT news668421932 A joint research team has successfully developed a two-dimensional (2D) quantum material platform through the superposition of moiré lattices. /news/2025-06-overlapping-moir-lattices-2d-materials.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:39:05 EDT news668169541 In the nanometer range (billionth of a meter), interactions occur between light and matter that do not happen on larger scales. As such, so-called nanophotonic materials have unique optical properties that open up a whole range of technical possibilities. /news/2025-05-ultrathin-resonators-standard-efficient.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 29 May 2025 12:09:11 EDT news667739344 Some of the most promising materials for future technologies come in layers just one atom thick, such as graphene, a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, prized for its exceptional strength and conductivity. While hundreds of such materials exist, truly merging them into something new has remained a challenge. Most efforts simply stack these atom-thin sheets like a deck of cards, but the layers typically lack significant interaction between them. /news/2025-05-glaphene-2d-hybrid-material-graphene.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 28 May 2025 16:22:05 EDT news667668121 An international research team has successfully achieved single-molecule spectroscopic observation of hydrogen (H2) and deuterium (D2) confined within a picocavity. The picocavity was formed between a silver nanotip and a silver single-crystal substrate under cryogenic and ultrahigh vacuum conditions, using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS). /news/2025-05-molecule-spectroscopy-reveals-isotope-effect.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 21 May 2025 14:08:03 EDT news667055281 Carbyne, a one-dimensional chain of carbon atoms, is incredibly strong for being so thin, making it an intriguing possibility for use in next-generation electronics, but its extreme instability causing it to bend and snap on itself made it nearly impossible to produce at all, let alone produce enough of it for advanced studies. Now, an international team of researchers, including from Penn State, may have a solution. /news/2025-05-stability-solution-unique-carbon-closer.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Fri, 09 May 2025 11:54:04 EDT news666010441 The rules about magnetic order may need to be rewritten. Researchers have discovered that chromium selenide (Cr2Se3)—traditionally non-magnetic in bulk form—transforms into a magnetic material when reduced to atomically thin layers. This finding contradicts previous theoretical predictions, and opens new possibilities for spintronics applications. This could lead to faster, smaller, and more efficient electronic components for smartphones, data storage, and other essential technologies. /news/2025-05-magnetic-materials-atomically-thin.html Condensed Matter Thu, 08 May 2025 09:56:39 EDT news665916997 Scientists from the Faculty of Â鶹ÒùÔºics and Applied Informatics at the University of Lodz have published an article on friction in the journal Small. Their research on "bismuth islands" moving on the surface of graphite confirmed the existence of a totally new form of so-called superlubricity—a friction-free contact between two solid bodies. /news/2025-05-revolution-friction-super-smooth-materials.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 07 May 2025 16:19:41 EDT news665853568 Recently, a group of researchers discovered a novel way to achieve spin-valve effects using kagome quantum magnets. /news/2025-04-kagome-quantum-magnets-valve-effects.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:46:02 EDT news665228761 In new research published in Nature, Weizmann Institute scientists introduce a powerful tool to explore quantum phenomena—the cryogenic Quantum Twisting Microscope (QTM). /news/2025-04-microscope-reveals-quantum-atoms-graphene.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:00:02 EDT news664472881 A research group from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a new strategy to precisely manipulate interlayer stacking orders and related properties in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals layered materials via mechanical bending, enabling efficient electric polarization switching. The study is published in Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review Letters. /news/2025-04-scientists-modulate-2d-material-properties.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:04:03 EDT news663422642 Research by physicists at The City College of New York is being credited for a novel discovery regarding the interaction of electronic excitations via spin waves. The finding by the Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) team headed by physicist Vinod Menon could open the door to future technologies and advanced applications such as optical modulators, all-optical logic gates, and quantum transducers. The work is reported in the journal Nature Materials. /news/2025-04-physicists-uncover-electronic-interactions.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:18:04 EDT news662905081 Pioneering new research could help unlock exciting new potential to create ultrafast, laser-driven storage devices. The study, led by experts from the University of Exeter, could revolutionize the field of data storage through the development of laser-driven magnetic domain memories. /news/2025-03-scientists-breakthrough-harnessing-magnetism-2d.html Nanophysics Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:20:02 EDT news662296600 Researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and the University of Montpellier have successfully synthesized wafer-scale hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) exhibiting an AA-stacking configuration, a crystal structure previously considered unattainable. /news/2025-03-stacking-constraints-hexagonal-boron-nitride.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:20:03 EDT news661695601 Researchers from Kyoto University have achieved a significant advancement in materials science by developing the world's first three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks (WaaFs). This innovation challenges the conventional belief that van der Waals interactions are too weak for open framework materials, demonstrating their potential for stable and highly porous materials. /news/2025-03-3d-van-der-waals-frameworks.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:00:06 EDT news661420253 A group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently devised a method allowing them to create large amounts of a material required to make two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors with record high performance. Their paper, published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces in late December 2024, could lead to more efficient and tunable photodetectors, paving the way for the next generation of light-sensing and multifunctional optoelectronic devices. /news/2025-03-tellurium-boosts-2d-semiconductor-faster.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:37:03 EDT news661441021 The Smart 3D Printing Research Team at KERI, led by Dr. Seol Seung-kwon has developed the world's first technology for printing high-resolution 3D microstructures using MXene, a material known as the dream material. /news/2025-03-chapter-3d-microprinting-mxene.html Nanomaterials Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:19:16 EDT news661000753 Since the groundbreaking discovery of graphene in 2004, the dizzying pace of progress in two-dimensional (2D) materials has ushered in a new era of fundamental research and technological innovation. Although nearly 2,000 2D materials have been theoretically predicted and hundreds have been created in laboratory settings, most of these 2D materials are limited to van der Waals (vdW) layered crystals. /news/2025-03-scientists-universal-technique-van-der.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:00:03 EDT news660989068 A technological advancement from Tel Aviv University has, for the first time, enabled the application of the scientific phenomenon of superlubricity in electronic components. As a result, the research team successfully harnessed frictionless sliding to significantly enhance the performance of memory components in computers and other electronic devices. /news/2025-02-superlubricity-enables-frictionless-electronic-devices.html Nanophysics Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:04:44 EST news659631872 Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully imaged the dynamic assembly of bilayer covalent organic frameworks (COFs) in solution, providing new insights into controlled stacking and moiré superlattice formation. /news/2025-02-opportunities-2d-materials.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:42:04 EST news659623320 A collaborative team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), Nanjing University, Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory (SLAB), and international partners has introduced a new method to regulate exotic electronic states in two-dimensional materials. /news/2025-02-advancing-quantum-materials-approach-electronic.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:46:03 EST news659263561 There is a big problem with quantum technology—it's tiny. The distinctive properties that exist at the subatomic scale usually disappear at macroscopic scales, making it difficult to harness their superior sensing and communication capabilities for real-world applications, like optical systems and advanced computing. /news/2025-02-magnetic-semiconductor-2d-quantum-properties.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:52:04 EST news659170321 A research group recently discovered the disappearance of nonreciprocal second harmonic generation (SHG) in MnPSe₃ when integrated into a two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnetic MnPSe₃/graphene heterojunction. /news/2025-02-magnetism-nonreciprocal-harmonic-generation-2d.html Nanophysics Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:07:03 EST news658757221 A new trick for illuminating the internal ordering within a special type of magnet could help engineers build better memory-storage devices. Developed by RIKEN physicists, this technique could make memory devices less corruptible. /news/2025-02-technique-magnetic-antiferromagnets.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:15:03 EST news658750502 Combining concepts from statistical physics with machine learning, researchers at the University of Bayreuth have shown that highly accurate and efficient predictions can now be made as to whether a substance will be liquid or gaseous under given conditions. They have published their findings in Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review X. /news/2025-02-machine-physics-merge-liquid-gas.html Condensed Matter Soft Matter Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:23:05 EST news658599774