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A neuromorphic chip, key to the predicted ‘paradigm shift’ in computing performance.Credit: Seung Hwan Lee Solid-state computing has had a...
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Rice University scientists who "flash" materials to synthesize substances like graphene have turned their attention to boron nitride, highly valued...
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From designing new biomaterials to novel photonic devices, new materials built through a process called bottom-up nanofabrication, or self-assembly, are...
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In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have...
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A hundred years of physics tells us that collective atomic vibrations, called phonons, can behave like particles or waves. When...
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From the Terminator to Spiderman's suit, self-repairing robots and devices abound in sci-fi movies. In reality, though, wear and tear...
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Nanomaterials found in consumer and health-care products can pass from the bloodstream to the brain side of a blood-brain barrier...
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Forces of nature have been outsmarting the materials we use to build our infrastructure since we started producing them. Ice...
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Scientific studies describing the most basic processes often have the greatest impact in the long run. A new work by...