A worker checks on the production of low-carbon materials in Huaibei, eastern China.Credit: NurPhoto/Getty Buying an ice cream in hot weather presents a challenge for those who prefer to linger over their summer snack: it can be a matter of seconds before even the hardiest product turns to soup. An experiment by a team of […]
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Materials science is a field that is seeing strong growth in the Nature Index. From 2019 to 2023, there was a 25% increase in the number of articles in the database related to the subject and last year these papers represented 27.2% of all research in its journals. In terms of the countries publishing this […]
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Nature, Published online: 27 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03649-y By patterning an ultrathin layered structure with tiny wells, physicists have created and imaged peculiar states known as quantum scars — revealing behaviour that could be used to boost the performance of electronic devices.
Nature, Published online: 25 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03772-w In 1984, scientists made a crystalline alloy that had a seemingly impossible arrangement of atoms. They had discovered the first quasicrystal — a type of material that transformed ideas about how atoms can be ordered in solids.
Ranga Dias is no longer employed as a researcher at the University of Rochester in New York, but continues to work at his company nearby, Unearthly Materials.Credit: Lauren Petracca/New York Times/Redux/eyevine Ranga Dias, a once bright star in the field of superconductivity who has been enmeshed in a public scandal for the past two years, […]
Gaëlle Andreatta (left) and Julia Carpenter are working to bring a new type of metal foam to market.Credit: Apheros In August, the technology start-up Apheros announced a US$1.85-million funding round to develop a metal-foam-based cooling system for the world’s data centres, which are expected to account for an estimated 6% of global energy consumption by […]
Nature, Published online: 22 October 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03311-7 In 2004, physicists reported something remarkable: they had isolated ultrathin films of carbon atoms using sticky tape alone, and found that the films had astounding properties. The finding would forever change condensed-matter physics.
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