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General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Apr 11, 2025

Breaking a century-old physics barrier: Scientists achieve perfect wave trapping with simple cylinders

A joint research team has successfully demonstrated the complete confinement of mechanical waves within a single resonator—something long thought to be theoretically impossible. Their findings, published on April 3 in Âé¶¹ÒùÔºical ...

Nanophysics Apr 3, 2025

Nitrogen and argon plasma boosts performance of carbon-based supercapacitor electrodes

Scientists from Skoltech, the Institute of Nanotechnology of Microelectronics, RAS, and other research centers have refined the understanding of how plasma treatment of carbon-based electrodes affects the key characteristics ...

Nanophysics Mar 31, 2025

Time-resolved photoluminescence unlocks nanoscale insights into surface-modified metal oxide semiconductors

In the quest for next-generation energy, sensing, and pigment technologies, semiconducting metal oxides like titanium dioxide (TiOâ‚‚) have emerged as essential materials due to their abundance, stability, and intriguing ...

Nanophysics Mar 17, 2025

Tellurium boosts 2D semiconductor performance for faster photodetection

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, ...

Plants & Animals Mar 14, 2025

How plants could help power the green energy transition

Biological science is changing the way we harness and manage renewable energy, according to a new study by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU).

Nanophysics Mar 11, 2025

Scientists discover smart way to generate energy with tiny plastic beads

An international team of researchers has discovered a new method to generate electricity using small plastic beads. By placing these beads close together and bringing them into contact, they generate more electricity than ...

Polymers Feb 25, 2025

From scraps to sips: Biomass-based hydrogel pulls drinking water from thin air

Discarded food scraps, stray branches, seashells and many other natural materials are key ingredients in a new system that can pull drinkable water out of thin air developed by researchers from The University of Texas at ...

Nanophysics Feb 11, 2025

Miniaturization of thin films uncovers 'Goldilocks zone' in relaxor ferroelectrics

A new study led by Rice University materials scientist Lane Martin sheds light on how the extreme miniaturization of thin films affects the behavior of relaxor ferroelectrics—materials with noteworthy energy-conversion ...

Nanophysics Jan 30, 2025

Generating electricity from tacky tape: Follow-up research offers improved version

Zaps of static electricity might be a wintertime annoyance, but to certain scientists, they represent an untapped source of energy. Using a device called a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), mechanical energy can be converted ...

Molecular & Computational biology Jan 23, 2025

Harvest smarter, not harder: Machine learning meets tomato farming

A research team led by Dr. David Helman from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a novel machine learning model employing hyperspectral imaging to assess the ...

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