Controlling light at dimensions thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair is one of the pillars of modern ...

Physicists are learning to treat light not as an untouchable beam that simply passes through matter, but as something that ...

Nanotechnology continues its march through the field of electronics, enabling faster and more energy-efficient computer processors, larger computer memory density and increased battery capacity. These ...

"The machine learning AFM framework provides a powerful atomic-scale tool to investigate disordered interfaces, phase transitions, and material defects, with broad potential applications in catalytic ...

MADISON – In an advance they consider a breakthrough in computational chemistry research, University of Wisconsin–Madison chemical engineers have developed model of how catalytic reactions work at the ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

MADISON – In 1959, physics icon Richard Feynman, in a characteristic back-of-the-envelope calculation, predicted that all the words written in the history of the world could be contained in a cube of ...

Superconductors are materials with no electrical resistance whatsoever, commonly requiring extremely low temperatures. They are used in a wide range of domains, from medical applications to a central ...

But the atomic structure of the boundary where these grains meet can be very complex and tend to have very high stresses." These grain boundary stresses are responsible for the fracture and fatigue ...