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A new piece of software developed at Caltech makes it easier to study the behavior of electrons in materials—even materials that have been predicted but do not yet exist. The software, called Perturbo ...

Modified wood Researchers at Linköping University, together with colleagues from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, have developed the world’s first electrical transistor made of wood. (Courtesy: ...

Hydrogen can become a clever way to store renewable energy and power fuel cells—but this introduces the problem of what can ...

Condensed-matter and materials physics (CMMP) is the science of the material world around us. From the dawn of civilization, curiosity about the natural world has led to questions about the character ...

Terahertz (THz) emission spectroscopy (TES) has emerged as a highly effective and versatile technique for investigating the photoelectric properties of diverse materials and nonlinear physical ...

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Scientists have found that staple-shaped particles can tangle together to create a material that is both strong and flexible.

Researchers in China have observed a novel version of the Hall effect in a single layer of tungsten selenide (WSe 2). The result, which they obtained by applying strain to a sample of the ...