Materials Sciences

Materials management deals with the research, development, manufacturing and processing of raw and industrial materials. Key aspects here are biological and medical issues, which play an increasingly important role in this field.

innovations-report offers in-depth articles related to the development and application of materials and the structure and properties of new materials.

Research finds surprising electron interaction in ‘magic-angle’ graphene

In 2018, physicists showed that something interesting happens when two sheets of the nanomaterial graphene are placed on top of each other. When one layer is rotated to a “magic…

Magnetism meets topology on a superconductor’s surface

This unusual electronic energy structure could be harnessed for technologies of interest in quantum information science and electronics. Electrons in a solid occupy distinct energy bands separated by gaps. Energy…

Spontaneous superconducting currents in Sr2RuO4

Superconductivity is a complete loss of electrical resistance. Superconductors are not merely very good metals: it is a fundamentally different electronic state. In normal metals, electrons move individually, and they…

Researchers use “swarmalation” to design active materials for self-regulating soft robots

University of Pittsburgh chemical engineers replicate “swarmalator” behavior in chemical sheets. During the swarming of birds or fish, each entity coordinates its location relative to the others, so that the…

Voltage from the parquet

Piezoelectric wood Ingo Burgert and his team at Empa and ETH Zurich has proven it time and again: Wood is so much more than “just” a building material. Their research…

Use of perovskite will be a key feature of the next generation of electronic appliances

Nanomaterials of perovskite dispersed in hexane and irradiated by laser; light emission by these materials is intense thanks to resistance to surface defects. Quantum dots are manmade nanoparticles of semiconducting…

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