News by Subject Chemistry & Physics

A research team from ITMO University and the Australian National University has discovered that different metasurfaces exhibit the same behavior provided a symmetry breaking is introduced to their unit cells 'meta-atoms'. Asymmetry of meta-atoms results in high-quality (high Q) resonances in the transmittance spectra of metasurfaces. It opens the way to control an optical response, which is highly desirable for practical applications. The results of this research were published in Physical Review Letters.

Scientists from Russia found a way of improving the crystal structure prediction algorithms, making the discovery of new compounds multiple times faster.

Generating complex multi-principle element TMDCs essential for the future development of new generations of quantum, electronic, and energy conversion materials is difficult.

Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, are working to develop a method to convert water and carbon dioxide to the renewable energy of the future, using the energy from the sun and graphene applied to the surface of cubic silicon carbide. They have now taken an important step towards this goal, and developed a method that makes it possible to produce graphene with several layers in a tightly controlled process.

New materials are being synthesized by twisting and stacking atomically thin layers. To bring it all under one roof, physicists Nathaniel Gabor of UC Riverside, and Justin C. W. Song of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, propose this field of research be called "electron quantum metamaterials." They have just published a perspective article in Nature Nanotechnology, in which they highlight the potential of engineering synthetic periodic arrays with feature sizes below the wavelength of an electron.