As a combustible fuel, the burning of hydrogen gas does not contribute to global warming. Today, the majority of hydrogen gas is generated from fossil fuels, however, and this process releases greenhouse gases into the… Read More »New noble-metal-free electrocatalyst decreases the energy required to generate hydrogen gas from water
Ordinary pencil lead holds extraordinary properties when shaved down to layers as thin as an atom. A single, atom-thin sheet of graphite, known as graphene, is just a tiny fraction of the width of a… Read More »From a five-layer graphene sandwich, a rare electronic state emerges
Optical beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) attract widespread attention and play an important role in optical data storage, optical communications, quantum information processing, super-resolution imaging, and optical trapping and manipulation. However, the bulky volume… Read More »Creating a broadband diffractive graphene orbital angular momentum metalens by laser nanoprinting
A team of international researchers led by The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and The University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has made a significant discovery in the field of quantum materials, uncovering the controllable… Read More »Physicists unlock controllable nonlinear Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphene
With the development of the information era, sensors capable of transmitting and detecting information have become the leading way to obtain information. Therefore, building a sensor system with a wide detection range, high sensitivity and… Read More »Laser-scribed graphene for sensors
A probable early driver of Alzheimer’s disease is the accumulation of molecules called amyloid peptides. These cause cell death and are commonly found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology,… Read More »Graphene oxide nanoflakes reduce the toxicity of Alzheimer’s proteins, shows study
On the dream list of many condensed matter physicists is observing fractionalization, the phenomena of a collective state of electrons carrying a charge that is a fraction of the electron charge, without a magnetic field.… Read More »Physicists realize fractionalization without a magnetic field
In research that could jumpstart interest into an enigmatic class of materials known as quasicrystals, MIT scientists and colleagues have discovered a relatively simple, flexible way to create new atomically thin versions that can be… Read More »Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals
The friction on a graphene surface can be dynamically tuned using external electric fields, according to researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign led by Professor Rosa Espinosa-Marzal of the Department of Civil and Environmental… Read More »Researchers dynamically tune friction in graphene
Humanity stands on the verge of two major revolutions: the boom in 2-dimensional supermaterials like graphene with incredible properties and the introduction of quantum computers with processing power that vastly outstrips that of standard computers.… Read More »Testing particle scattering and reflection in graphene