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Growing Graphene Ribbons in One Direction
New method to fabricate graphene nanoribbon arrays on semiconductor wafers turns semimetal into semiconductor.
New method to fabricate graphene nanoribbon arrays on semiconductor wafers turns semimetal into semiconductor.
New data that "wimpy" gluons, the glue-like particles that bind quarks within protons, have a big impact on proton spin.
Cutting-edge experiment with a beam of radioactive barium ions provides direct evidence of nuclear pear-shape deformation.
Newly discovered “design rule” brings nature-inspired nanostructures one step closer.
Device allows fast, precise measurements of electric and magnetic fields at the atomic level, providing insights into the next generation of electronic, energy production, and storage materials.
This discovery could lead to low-cost, non-toxic, biological components for light-weight electronics.
Lithium walls open up access to new regimes for the fusion reactor.
Cutting-edge simulations provide an explanation for a mystery over half a century old.
New element 117 and its decay products establish the existence of long-sought Island of Stability.
Computer algorithm recovers histories and dynamics on timescales much faster than uncertainties inherent in experimental data.
Hollow shape-selected platinum nanocages represent a new class of highly active catalysts.
The world’s fastest images of nitrogen molecules rotating in a gas were captured using electron diffraction.