A New Way to Fine-Tune Exotic Materials
Turning a brittle oxide into a flexible membrane and stretching it on a tiny apparatus flipped it from a conducting to an insulating state and changed its magnetic properties
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A Water-Free Way to Make MXenes
Discovery by Drexel researchers could open new application for MXene nanomaterials
Researchers One Step Closer to Creating Organic Batteries
Lithium-ion batteries use toxic, heavy metals that can impact the environment when they are extracted from the ground and are difficult to dispose of safely
Scientists Create an 'Impossible' Superconducting Compound
Physicists are busy searching for a substance that becomes superconducting at room temperature
New Laser Technique Images Quantum World in a Trillionth of a Second
Technique captures a process that commonly causes electrical resistance in materials while, in others, can cause the absence of resistance, or superconductivity
Research Reveals New State of Matter: A Cooper Pair Metal
A team of researchers has shown that Cooper pairs can also conduct electricity with some amount of resistance, like regular metals do
Graphene Substrate Improves the Conductivity of Carbon Nanotube Network
Scientists at Aalto University, Finland, and the University of Vienna, Austria, have combined graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes into a transparent hybrid material with conductivity higher than either component exhibits separately
Rare 'Lazarus Superconductivity' Observed in Promising, Rediscovered Material
In a uranium-based compound once dismissed as uninteresting, scientists watched superconductivity arise, disappear, then return under the influence of high magnetic fields
Quantum Material Goes Where None Have Gone Before
Alloy behaves strangely while traversing potential 'spin liquid' state
Light Work for Superconductors
Laser light compels iron compound to conduct power without resistance