There is a growing interest in the use of amorphous materials in a range of advanced industrial and scientific applications. This article discusses their short range order using electron diffraction.
By Cvetelin Vasilev
19 May 2020
Quantum physics and transmission electron microscopy allow investigation of materials much smaller than optical microscopes.
Atomic absorption is the process by which particles of matter (atoms) absorb energy. With 20th century advances in the field of physics, this process can be understood according to the peculiar laws of quantum mechanics.
By Ben Pilkington
6 May 2020
The use of nanoparticles represents a significant breakthrough in medicine due to their ability to deliver drugs, light, and heat to specifically targeted cells. For this medical revolution to proceed, researchers need an efficient way to introduce nanoparticles?—particles ?smaller than 100 nanometers in diameter?—?into a patient’s system.
By Robert Lea
30 Apr 2020
Astronomers have discovered that WASP-76b, an exoplanet 390 light years from our own solar system, is a world dominated by an extreme dichotomy.
By Robert Lea
27 Mar 2020
The discovery of water vapor in the atmosphere of the exoplanet K2–18b made it an ideal object of study for scientists seeking to understand the planets that lie within the ‘habitable zone’ of other star systems.
By Robert Lea
27 Mar 2020
The universe is expanding, and it is doing so at an accelerating rate. However, lingering questions about universal expansion do remain. Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Geneva, Lucas Lombriser, has put forward an extraordinary suggestion.
By Robert Lea
26 Mar 2020
Astronomers have discovered a massive white dwarf, 1.14 times the mass of our Sun, which they propose is the result of a star merger between two smaller white dwarfs.
By Robert Lea
26 Mar 2020
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques are a class of imaging techniques that rely on the interaction between an atomically sharp tip and a surface to identify and characterize the topology of the sample.
By Liam Critchley
13 Mar 2020
An international team of physicists from the Universities of Illinois in the United States, Pavia, Italy, and Toronto, Canada has recently published a paper in Physical Review Letters that demonstrates a new method for generating quantum entanglement in an optical fiber.
By Ben Pilkington
12 Mar 2020