Honeycomb configuration helps disassemble magnetic islands—potential data storage and computational advances could follow.
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Polymer gel continuously responds to fleeting stimuli
A microscopic pump starts up when irradiated with UV light but its material continues to work when the stimulus is removed.
M€ 27.4 for Materials Science Center
State and Federation finance new building of 4500 square meters on KIT’s campus south – research to focus on materials for future energy systems.
The positive sides of doping
New research might pave the way for the industrialization of flexible, light-weight and low-cost cadmium telluride solar cells on metal foils.
3D graphene: solar cells' new platinum?
A unique form of carbon could lower the cost of dye-sensitized solar cells.
From carrots to flat-screen TVs: 125 years of liquid crystals
A topical issue of Angewandte Chemie and a GDCh Colloquium in Darmstadt, Germany.
Book Review: Advanced Thermoforming
Dr Peter Martin, Queen’s University Belfast reviews Advanced Thermoforming: Methods, Machines and Materials, Applications and Automation by Sven Engelmann.
Magnetisation controlled at the picosecond level
A terahertz laser developed at the Paul Scherrer Institute makes it possible to control a material’s magnetisation at a timescale of picoseconds.
New optical sensor can detect individual nanoscale objects
Special polydimethylsiloxane-coated deformed microcavity acts as an optical “whispering gallery”.
Graphene conduction mystery solved
Researchers from Germany the US and Spain have discovered why graphene’s electron conduction can’t be completely stopped.