Aug 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from The University of Manchester and the University of Warwick finally solved the long-standing puzzle of why graphene is so much more permeable to protons than expected by theory. A decade ago, scientists at The University of Manchester demonstrated that graphene is permeable to...
Guiding the design of silicon devices with improved efficiency
Aug 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Silicon is one of the most pervasive functional materials of the modern age, underpinning semiconductor technologies ranging from microelectronics to solar cells. Indeed, silicon transistors enable computing applications from cell phones to supercomputers, while silicon photovoltaics are the most widely deployed solar-cell technology to date....
Closing the loop between artificial intelligence and robotic experiments
Aug 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) The powers of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic experiment systems have come together in pioneering proof-of-concept work at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. The researchers describe the development and demonstration of their “closed loop” automation software in the journal Science and...
Listening to nanoscale earthquakes
Aug 23, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A recent UNSW-led paper published in Nature Communications ("Crackling noise microscopy") presents an exciting new way to listen to avalanches of atoms in crystals. The nanoscale movement of atoms when materials deform leads to sound emission. This so-called crackling noise is a scale-invariant phenomenon found...