Amorphous graphene, copper clusters, and solar cells – these and more in February’s physics highlights.
Results for "carbon"
Combining boron nitride and graphene for new 2D materials
Researchers create fine patterns that combine single-atom-thick graphene and boron nitride.
Bulk Metallic Glass Composites for Spacecraft Shielding
Scientists report in Advanced Engineering Materials a new materials for shielding spacecraft from micrometeroid and space debris impact.
Joseph DeSimone: liberal arts education shapes science startup founders
Joseph DeSimone talks to us about materials science startups and how liberal arts eduction shapes an entrepreneur.
Nanomaterials kaleidoscope: building a nanochemistry periodic table
In a new piece, Prof. Geoffrey Ozin makes his case for a new kind of combinatorial strategy for nanomaterials based on the idea of nanochemistry DNA.
All-organic gas barrier thin films fabricated from graphene oxide/polymer
“Nanobrick wall” blocks oxygen and carbon dioxide transmission, and has high hydrogen selectivity.
Boron could do what graphene does
Rice University researchers have calculated what it would take to make new two-dimensional material.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for December 2012
We present the most downloaded papers from the pss family of journals in December.
Organic ferroelectric material for future electronics applications
Researchers have discovered a molecule that shows promise as an organic alternative to today’s silicon-based semiconductors.
Catalytic subsurface etching: digging nanotunnels into graphite
Tiny metal balls used to etch graphite tunnels with diameters of only one-thousandth that of a human hair.
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