Scientists have shown that a high-quality thin film conductor they built is the best among similarly grown films for its electron mobility. The material is considered a promising candidate platform for future wearable electronics and other miniature applications.

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Long-Lived Magnetization in an Atomic Spin Chain Tuned to a Diabolic Point

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Scientists learn how to make nanotubes that point in one direction

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New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered

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New superconductor with unconventional superconductivity discovered | Student project uncovers superconductivity in polycrystalline iron nickel zirconide

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Crystals—from sugar 🍬 and table salt 🧂 to snowflakes ❄️ and diamonds 💎—don’t always grow in a straightforward way. New York University researchers have captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly structures in a new study.

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Researchers have developed a compact, high-repetition-rate proton accelerator that uses millijoule-class lasers 🔬✨ and leverages pre-pulses to generate megavolt energy protons ⚡️💥, potentially enabling practical applications in fields like cancer therapy 🎗️ and materials science 🧪.

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Scientists achieve record-breaking electrical conductivity in new quantum material ⚡️🔬✨

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Rice researchers replicating Edison’s 1879 light bulb experiments 🔬💡 show graphene ⚛️ may have been unintentional byproduct

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💡 Researchers have developed a new polymer capacitor using inexpensive, readily available plastics that can handle four times the energy of current capacitors and operate at temperatures up to 482°F, a significant leap from the previous limit of 212°F.

⚡ This breakthrough, published in Nature on February 18, could revolutionize electronics like electric vehicles and data centers, allowing for more powerful devices or significantly smaller components.

🔬 The innovation lies in mixing two specific high-temperature polymers, PEI and PBPDA, to create a unique nanostructure that prevents charge leakage and maintains stability across a wide temperature range, from -148°F to 482°F.

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✨ Researchers developed a self-healing composite material that could extend the lifespan of aircraft and automotive parts by up to a century.

✨ The "thermal remending" method embeds a healing agent (EMAA) into the material. Heating the composite vaporizes water bubbles, creating pressure that spreads the EMAA into fractures. Cooling solidifies the EMAA, reconnecting broken layers.

✨ The material successfully underwent over 1000 healing cycles, maintaining over 100% fracture recovery compared to non-healing materials for 500 cycles. This suggests parts could last 125 to 500 years.

✨ The technology is patent-protected and planned for integration into existing manufacturing processes, with potential for autonomous self-healing in the near future.

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✨ Scientists have stabilized a rare three-atom metal ring, confirming aromatic behavior in the heaviest 6p system ever observed.

✨ This breakthrough, led by Professor Stephen Liddle, features the first actinide inverse-sandwich complexes containing a cyclo‑Bi₃³⁻ ring (diuranium and dithorium), revealing sigma-aromaticity over pi-aromaticity.

✨ The discovery bridges organic and all-metal aromaticity, establishing a new benchmark and expanding design possibilities for functional materials by demonstrating aromaticity beyond carbon-based rings.

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⚫ Researchers have developed an ultrablack coating that absorbs over 99.9% of visible light, surpassing previous materials like Vantablack developed in 2014.

🚗 This new coating meets key durability standards for automotive use, making it suitable for luxury vehicles and addressing the mass-processability challenge faced by earlier ultrablack technologies.

💡 The advanced coating combines carbon nanotubes with conventional carbon-black pigment, creating a "connecting-the-dots" structure that traps light and achieves extreme blackness while being manufacturable with standard industrial equipment.

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Researchers shed new light on how ancient Roman concrete has lasted thousands of years

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✨ Researchers have developed a new small-molecule glue, CyclicFP-fmoc, that strongly bonds to diverse surfaces, including nonstick ones.

💪 The adhesive boasts impressive strength, capable of hoisting an 8 kg weight, and achieved 1.3 ± 0.1 MPa in lap-shear tensile tests, surpassing commercial epoxies and silicones.

💧 Remarkably, a simple ethanol wash completely removes CyclicFP-fmoc, leaving surfaces pristine and allowing for repeated reuse of the adhesive with minimal loss of strength.

♻️ This innovation could simplify the recycling of adhesively bonded materials by enabling easy separation, offering a potential alternative to traditional polymer adhesives.

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New research shows how ‘hot electrons’ can reshape metals in billionths of a second

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⚡️ Ultrafast Metal Transformation: New research from The University of Manchester shows 'hot electrons' can dramatically change metal structures in picoseconds, driven by electronic changes, not traditional heat.

⚛️ Beyond Heat-Driven Changes: Scientists discovered that electronic entropy alone can cause metals to switch between crystal structures, a mechanism different from typical heat-induced phase changes.

💡 Controlling Material States: This groundbreaking study, published in Physical Review Materials, could lead to new ways to control material properties using ultrafast lasers, impacting fields like advanced manufacturing.

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⚡️ New research from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research reveals a previously unknown source of metal corrosion: electrically charged water. Experiments show these charged droplets can cause protective coatings to break down through dielectric breakdown, leading to metal damage.

💧 Researchers demonstrated that charged water drops, formed naturally through processes like sliding across surfaces or in thunderclouds, can cause holes in conventional protective coatings on copper via an intense electrical process. This mechanism was previously overlooked.

🔬 The study, published in Nature, used microscopy to observe damage to coated metals like copper and gold. While conventional understanding attributes water-induced coating failure to physical abrasion or chemical degradation, this new research highlights an electrical breakdown mechanism.

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Materials scientists develop ductile and scalable 3 GPa (435 ksi) steel via a hierarchical microstructural architecture

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