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Performance-limiting nanoscale trap clusters at grain junctions in halide perovskites

May, 2020 The understanding of electronic behaviour at grain boundaries is crucial in designing hybrid perovskite materials, which have promising applications in solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Specifically, charge trap...

22 June 2026

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Glassy springs are so much better

June, 2020 Familiar springs are wires formed into coils but, in comparison, thin sheets formed into wavy shapes can elastically support a given load in much smaller working volume, using...

22 June 2026

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Skyrmi-on-s or skyrmi-off-s?

June, 2020 Over the past few years there has been rapidly growing interest in ‘magnetic skyrmions’, which are topologically protected magnetic bubbles with promising applications in next-generation computing devices. Recently,...

22 June 2026

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Performance-limiting nanoscale trap clusters at grain junctions in halide perovskites

May, 2020 The understanding of electronic behaviour at grain boundaries is crucial in designing hybrid perovskite materials, which have promising applications in solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Specifically, charge trap...

22 June 2026

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A Simple Fluid Changes Viscosity and Viscoelasticity with Light

April, 2020 Smart viscoelastic fluids, whose flow behaviour can be changed on demand, have the potential to be innovative in areas such as controlled flow and release, microfluidic device technology,...

22 June 2026

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Strain-hardening in metallic glasses

March, 2020 Strain(work)-hardening is the main reason that alloys are significant structural materials.  It ensures that flow is delocalized, imparts ductility and inhibits catastrophic mechanical failure.  Metallic glasses (MGs) have...

22 June 2026

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Polymer blends reduce stent embrittlement

January, 2020 With coronary heart disease being one of the world’s leading causes of death, there is huge demand for improved medical devices that can improve treatment, in particular bioresorbable...

22 June 2026

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Nodal superconducting exchange coupling

December, 2019 In a ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic/ferromagnetic multilayer, the electrical resistance depends on the magnetisation alignment between the ferromagnetic layers: the resistance in the antiparallel (AP) state is higher than the parallel...

22 June 2026

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Survival of the coolest

November, 2019 Cooling accounts for ever more of the worldwide energy budget, and novel approaches are under continuous investigation. For example, there has been significant focus on highly engineered prototype...

22 June 2026

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Catalysts for Efficient Production of Hydrogen

October, 2019 Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) compounds are promising catalysts for generating hydrogen from water. However, most TMD compounds possess low electrical conductivity so charge transfer required for the catalytic...

22 June 2026