Materials

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Fade boosts lithium battery stability

Plugging into alternative energy storage ideas.

Energy storage technologies vie for investment

Ideas abound for alternative energy storage technologies, but investment remains key for real-world change

Ferrimagnets speed up racetrack memories

New class of materials allows for the tiniest and fastest magnetic solitons ever

New journal opens up collaboration in materials science

Whatever you can bring to the table collaboration is key in materials science

There’s plenty of room at the interfaces

ICREA Professor STephan Roche, Editor-in-Chief of the recently launched Kournal of Physics: Materials

A new player hits the scene in materials science

Optical micrograph of a large h-BN crystal exfoliated on a copper foil, fully covered with graphene after the growth. Credit: Journal of Physics: Materials

Graphene plasmon devices take on quality and scale

Introducing JPhys Materials

JPhys Materials is a fantastic new open-access journal covering all branches of physical sciences contributing to the advancement of materials science. The journal showcases the most significant and exciting developments in materials research, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies. The first issue is out now.

Research headlines

Superconducting and diamond qubits get a boost

Independent studies could lead to practical quantum computers

Photograph of the plastic nanogap PLED device with a-Lith fabricated Al-Au nanogap structures on a PET substrate. Credit: Journal of Physics: Materials

Polymer LEDs go nano

A recently developed adhesion lithography technique brings greater versatility fabrication nanoscale optoelectronic devices

Topological photons could make qubits for quantum computers

Researchers have quantum mechanically interfered topological states of light for the first time

PTEN protein expression in bone tumour tissue

mRNA nanoparticles restore tumour-suppressor gene

A new approach to treating cancer

Light controls a ‘living biomaterial’

A bacteria-based living biomaterial can be controlled with light to interact with mammalian cells

Photoexcitation of a CdS nanorod (yellow) provides the driving force for transfer of holes to the molecular catalyst (structure on top). Meanwhile, the CdS nanorod acts as a conduit to shuttle electrons to the hydrogen-evolving Pt nanoparticle (grey) affixed to the nanorod tip, completing the reaction without sacrificial agents. Courtesy of Nature

Specific nanocatalyst placements improve visible-light water splitting

Utilizing the anisotropy of nanorods to separately anchor hydrogen reduction and water oxidation co-catalysts could provide the key to efficient water splitting

2D Materials

Publishing fundamental and applied research of the highest quality and impact covering all aspects of graphene and related two-dimensional materials

Materials on film

Nanoprobe I14 Beamline Scientist Julia Parker in the experiment hutch

Diamond Light Source – where materials surrender their secrets

Characterization service promises graphene industry a leg up

Integrated electronics at 50 – projecting the future of the field

Nanotechnology in focus

Administration of rGCase into the brain. Courtesy Nano Futures

Brain disease drug delivery research gets quantitative

The first investigation to quantitatively evaluate successful delivery and activity of enzymes encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles shows promise for treating Gaucher disease

Experimental scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) images for the triazine on the highly ordered pyrolytic graphite. Courtesy of Nano Futures

Self-assembled molecular layers strike a balance

Calculations identify the fine balance between different interactions, as well as highlighting limitations to DFT calculations

Plasmonic tweezer array traps microparticles

Annular aperture device could be used to make lab-on-chips for biotechnological applications

Nano Futures

Publishing ground-breaking work at the forefront of nanoscience and technological innovation

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