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W&M researchers progress in unraveling mysteries of invisible spider web ‘super fibers’
How small is “small?” Spider silk nanofibrils are just a few molecular layers thick, equivalent to approximately one ten-thousandth the...
Oct 31, 20244 min read


Superconductivity: the mystery of Fermi arcs solved
High-temperature superconductivity is one of the great mysteries of modern physics: some materials conduct electrical current without any...
Oct 28, 20243 min read


UChicago researchers unlock a ‘new synthetic frontier’ for quantum dots
The type of semiconductive nanocrystals known as quantum dots are both expanding the forefront of pure science and also hard at work in...
Oct 28, 20243 min read


Kory Burns leads AI-enhanced breakthrough that illuminates materials reactions at nanoscale
Kory Burns, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, is a leader in materials science who is...
Oct 24, 20242 min read


Going chiral: Breakthrough in synthesizing carbon nanotubes with precise chirality
Researchers have achieved a significant breakthrough in the synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) by developing a novel catalyst that...
Oct 23, 20242 min read


Novel 2D electro-polaritonic platform for future miniaturized spectrometers
Polaritons are coupled excitations of electromagnetic waves with either charged particles or vibrations in the atomic lattice of a given...
Oct 23, 20243 min read
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