A team of Lehigh University researchers has successfully predicted abnormal grain growth in simulated polycrystalline materials for the first time — a development that could lead to the creation of stronger, more reliable materials for…
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Adhesive millirobots with switchable grip handle solids and liquids in air and water
Apr 16, 2025 Millirobots with tunable adhesive microstructures grip and release solids and liquids in both air and underwater…
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Ultra-strong 2D polymer mimics medieval chainmail
Apr 16, 2025 A 2D mechanically interlocked polymer mimicking chainmail shows high flexibility and stiffness, offering promise for lightweight protective and smart armor systems.
(Nanowerk News) Researchers…
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2D Chip Breakthrough: 6,000 Transistors, 3 Atoms Thick
A microchip with nearly 6,000 transistors, each only three atoms thick, is the most complex microprocessor made from a two-dimensional material to date, scientists in China say.
The new device was made using the semiconductor molybdenum disulfide,…
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Future Chips Will Be Hotter Than Ever
For over 50 years now, egged on by the seeming inevitability of Moore’s Law, engineers have managed to double the number of transistors they can pack into the same area every two years. But while the industry was chasing logic density, an…
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Navigating the Angstrom Era – IEEE Spectrum
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Applied Materials.
The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a transformative era as it bumps up against the physical limits of making faster and more efficient microchips. As we progress toward…
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A MEMS electro-mechanical co-optimization platform featuring freeform geometry optimization based on a genetic algorithm
System-level optimization methodology based on a genetic algorithm (GA)
The proposed design methodology comprises two parts: (i) a parametrized system-level model as shown in Fig. 1b (including a mechanical ROM implemented, an electronic model)…
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Efficient detection of gastric cancer biomarkers on functionalized carbon nanoribbons using DFT analysis
VOCs adsorption on pristine CNRs
The relaxed structure of N-CNRs, spin-polarized band structure and projected density of states are given in Fig. 1a–c, which clearly shows a paramagnetic semiconductor character with a bandgap energy
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The growing memristor industry | Nature
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Nanoscale heterophase regulation enables sunlight-like full-spectrum white electroluminescence
Design criteria and theoretical calculation
An ideal full-spectrum white light is supposed to cover the entire visible spectrum (Region I-III, 400–780 nm) continuously, showing no specific emission lack (Fig. 1a). Commercial WLED combines the…
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