2+ hour, 6+ min ago  (273+ words) Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Houston have achieved sustained self-healing of a composite material. The findings promise to extend the lifetime of aircraft and automotive parts by a century, according to a recent paper published…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (464+ words) Semiconductors and insulators mainly carry heat via vibrations, or phonons, in their crystalline lattices. A notable example is boron arsenide, a semiconductor that the UCLA researchers previously identified as also having a high thermal conductivity. Conventional metals, in contrast, mainly…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (385+ words) Physics World spoke to team co-leader Quansheng Wu to learn more about this new tool and how it can benefit the materials research community. The platform works by taking the atomic structure of materials and mathematically mapping it into a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (678+ words) The space physicist Michele Dougherty has stepped aside as president of the Institute of Physics, which publishes Physics World. The move was taken to avoid any conflicts of interest given her position as executive chair of the Science and Technology…...

1+ mon, 2+ week 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+ mon, 2+ week 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+ mon, 2+ week 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+ mon, 3+ week 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…...

1+ mon, 4+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 5+ day 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…...