A new sheet of paper is a blank canvas, but a microscope shows that it's a wild, tangled jungle of cellulose fibres. “Every ...

The first erasers were made of stale bread and wax. Long before humans smacked “delete” to obliterate typos, we fixed mistakes and revised written language the old-fashioned way: by rubbing errors ...

Abstract: Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide-based van der Waals heterostructures have been proposed for avant-garde, highly scalable optoelectronic and excitonic devices. Although ab ...

Data is growing at a staggering pace, pushing charge-based microelectronics, such as smartphones and laptops, to their physical limits. Spintronics—technology that uses electron spin rather than ...

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 ...

James Van Der Beek, the actor who endeared himself to a generation of television viewers as the star of the teen melodrama “Dawson’s Creek,” died Wednesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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 ...

Abstract: Two-dimensional ferroelectric field-effect transistors hold great promise for next-generation electronics due to their scalability, low power operation, and non-volatile memory capabilities.

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 ...

Leonore van der Waals now runs the antique jewelry store that her mother established in Amsterdam more than 60 years ago. By Heike Blümner Reporting from Amsterdam The wide gold Victorian bangle was ...

Stacking and twisting 2D van der Waals (vdW) layers have become versatile platforms to tune the electron correlation. These platforms rely on exfoliating vdW materials down to a single vdW layer and a ...