Opposing teams of water-loving and oil-loving molecules separate metals called lanthanides that are important in developing clean energy technologies.
Scientists can now verify theoretical predictions using one-dimensional compositions grown in-situ at a synchrotron spectroscopy station.
X-rays penetrate a working electrode to determine the structure and chemistry in play when water enters the electrochemically active layers.
Scientists use a common engineering approach to enhance the superconductivity and induce ferroelectricity in the quantum material strontium titanate.
Three-dimensional superconducting electrons choose to cross over to a flatter alternate dimension.
Experiments examine atomic disorder and dynamics that could explain beneficial optical properties.
X-ray imaging shows that selectively etching surface nickel from a nickel-platinum alloy leaves a chemically active platinum coating.
Trapping electrons with atomic vibrations has the potential to tune behavior in a quantum material.
By confining the transport of electrons and ions in a patterned thin film, scientists alter the material's properties for next-generation electronics.
Interfaces made by stacking certain complex oxide materials can tune the quantum interactions between electrons, yielding exotic spin textures.
Researchers detect an exotic electron phase called Wigner crystal in tungsten diselenide/tungsten disulfide moiré superlattices.
Patterned arrays of nanomagnets produce X-ray beams with a switchable rotating wavefront twist.
