Porous materials are widely used for gas storage, separation, catalysis, and environmental purification. Their functionality arises from nanoscale pores that allow molecules to be selectively captured ...

Van der Waals forces, once deemed too weak for structural integrity, have been shown to create stable, highly porous frameworks with exceptional thermal resilience and reversible assembly, paving the ...

In general, when you measure material properties such as optical permittivity, your measurement doesn’t depend on the direction in which you make it. However, recent research has shown that this is ...

Imagine a future where computers can learn and make decisions in ways that mimic human thinking, but at a speed and efficiency that are orders of magnitude greater than the current capability of ...

A new technical paper titled “Field-free deterministic switching of all–van der Waals spin-orbit torque system above room temperature” was published by researchers at MIT, with funding by the NSF and ...

Ultrathin bismuthene islands on graphite slide freely in one direction and pause unpredictably, revealing new ways to control friction in nanoscale materials. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Friction at small ...

With THz spectroscopy scaled down to chip-sized, researchers identified a potential new way to control quantum materials. (Nanowerk News) In the right combinations and conditions, two-dimensional ...