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Solutions to Water Challenges Reside at the Interface

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 17, 2018 — In response to rising water scarcity, leading Argonne National Laboratory researcher Seth Darling describes the most advanced research innovations that could […]

The Culprit of Some GaN Defects Could Be Nitrogen

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 29, 2018 — As silicon-based semiconductors reach their performance limits, gallium nitride (GaN) is becoming the next go-to material to advance light-emitting diode (LED) […]

Building Nanomaterials for Next-Generation Computing

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30, 2018 — Nanoscientists at Northwestern University have developed a blueprint to fabricate new heterostructures from different types of 2-D materials. 2-D materials are […]

Performing Under Pressure: Modeling Oxidation in High-Stress Materials

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 17, 2018 — Each year, the effects of corroding materials sap more than $1 trillion from the global economy. As certain alloys are exposed […]

A New Metasurface Model Shows Potential to Control Acoustic Wave Reflection

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2018 — An international team of researchers showed how a nonlinear elastic metasurface could convert a wave’s fundamental frequency to its second harmonic. […]

Exploring the Thermoelectric Properties of Tin Selenide Nanostructures

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2018 — Single crystal tin selenide (SnSe) is a semiconductor and an ideal thermoelectric material; it can directly convert waste heat to electrical […]

The Search for Dark Matter Widens

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2018 — Astronomers have observed that galaxies rotate with such great speed they should be torn apart, yet they are not. It is […]

Measuring Electrical Conductance Across A Single Molecule

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — When noble metals, like gold, are treated with an aliphatic thiol, like alkanethiol, a uniform monolayer — a layer only one […]

Thermally Driven Spin Current in DNA

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 15, 2018 — An emerging field that has generated a wide range of interest, spin caloritronics, is an offshoot of spintronics that explores how […]