This podcast features an advanced-materials expert and a prizewinning science communicator
Read article: Top tips for physics outreach from a prize winner, making graphene more sustainable
Experimental observations at the Swiss Light Source could advance the development of energy-efficient memory devices based on "orbitronics"
Read article: Orbital angular momentum monopoles appear in a chiral crystal
Applied voltage adjusts intensity at twin focal points
Read article: Liquid-crystal bifocal lens excels at polarization and edge imaging
Electromagnetic vortex pulses could be employed for information encoding, high-capacity communication and more
Read article: Vortex cannon generates toroidal electromagnetic pulses
Memory-like behaviour emerges in a polymer gel
Read article: Electro-active material ‘learns’ to play Pong
Pillar-studded surface just hundreds of nanometres thick allows researchers to control direction, polarization and phase of thermal radiation
Read article: Metasurface makes thermal sources emit laser-like light
Mahdi Bodaghi and Jelena Lazovic Zinnanti are our podcast guests
Read article: Diamond dust for MRI, 4D printing creates advanced devices
Research teams at Cranfield University in the UK are developing novel materials and processes in the quest for greener, more sustainable manufacturing
Read article: The route to ‘net zero’: how the manufacturing industry can help
Cork treated with femtosecond laser processing could be used to clean up large-scale marine oil spills
Read article: Sucking up crude oil with laser-treated cork
Collective topological chiral spin textures could lead to new concepts for spintronics devices
Read article: Quasiparticles called merons appear in a synthetic antiferromagnet for the first time
