Controlling light at dimensions thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair is one of the pillars of modern ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

Nanotechnology continues its march through the field of electronics, enabling faster and more energy-efficient computer processors, larger computer memory density and increased battery capacity. These ...

Physicists have found a way to study the inner workings of Josephson junctions without using electronics at all.

MADISON – In an advance they consider a breakthrough in computational chemistry research, University of Wisconsin–Madison chemical engineers have developed model of how catalytic reactions work at the ...

Through a novel combination of machine learning and atomic force microscopy, researchers in China have unveiled the molecular ...

Scientists have cracked open a mysterious layer inside batteries, using cutting-edge 3D atomic force microscopy to capture the dynamic molecular structures at their solid-liquid interfaces. These once ...

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MADISON – In 1959, physics icon Richard Feynman, in a characteristic back-of-the-envelope calculation, predicted that all the words written in the history of the world could be contained in a cube of ...

Electronics keep shrinking, but silicon is starting to run into physical limits. To go smaller, researchers are turning to ...