6+ hour, 21+ min ago   (435+ words) A team of researchers from King's College and Imperial College London have proposed a new way to calculate entropy production in active matter systems Active matter'is matter composed of large numbers of active constituents, each of which consumes'chemical energy'in order…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (154+ words) A detailed look inside carbon foams reveals how TiO" coatings form in 3D structures, offering new control over next'generation energy materials In this study, researchers deposited TiO" thin films onto carbon foams using magnetron sputtering and applied different bias voltages to…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (463+ words) Lorna Brigham is a Scientific Editor at IOP Publishing. She holds a Master's degree in Chemistry and completed her PhD at the University of Sussex, where she specialised in photovoltaic materials. Lorna joined the Reports on Progress in Physics journal…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (371+ words) Lorna Brigham is a Scientific Editor at IOP Publishing. She holds a Master's degree in Chemistry and completed her PhD at the University of Sussex, where she specialised in photovoltaic materials. Lorna joined the Reports on Progress in Physics journal…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (587+ words) CERN team solves decades-old mystery of light nuclei formation'Physics World - Enter password Show password Password field is now showing your password - Access more than 20 years of online content - Manage which e-mail newsletters you want to receive - Read about the big…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (141+ words) While OLEDs usually only emit either left- or right-handed CP light, researchers have now developed OLEDs that can electrically switch between emitting left- or right-handed CP light " without needing different molecules for each handedness. The molecule in question is a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (398+ words) The boundary between a substance's liquid and solid phases may not be as clear-cut as previously believed. A new state of matter that is a hybrid of both has emerged in research by scientists at the University of Nottingham, UK…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (626+ words) From ice cream to instant coffee, theoretical physicist Rob Farr has spent his career studying the fundamental properties of food materials to help manufacturers optimize production processes, as Joe McEntee finds out As a theoretical physicist working in industrial-scale food…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (225+ words) The technique developed by Zhang, Du and colleagues involves heating powders of pure metals between two monolayer-MoS2/sapphire vdW anvils. Once the metal powders are melted into a droplet, the researchers applied a pressure of 200 MPa and continued this "vdW…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (343+ words) I am an online editor of Physics World. I did a PhD in condensed-matter physics at McMaster University in Canada. I am still fascinated by what is an extremely rich and varied subject that I believe is ignored by the…...