Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have produced ultrathin bismuth ferrite (BiFeO₃) films that deliver a fourfold ...

A strange new phase of ice has been discovered during experiments with the world's largest X-ray laser. Meet ice XXI, a bizarre phase that forms at room temperature, under extreme pressure. Ice XXI is ...

The Ruddlesden–Popper (R–P) bilayer nickelate, La3Ni2O7, was recently found to show signatures of high-temperature superconductivity (HTSC) at pressures above 14 GPa (ref. 1). Subsequent ...

A research team led by Prof. WU Wenbing and Prof. WANG Linfei from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in collaboration with Prof. SI Liang' s team from Northwest University, ...

Schematic illustration of water-assisted exfoliation of freestanding oxide membranes from SAO C and SAO T sacrificial layers. Freestanding oxide membrane is a type of low-dimensional quantum material ...

Look at the cubic pyrite crystals. It’s almost hard to believe something like that is natural. Image via Wiki Commons. Crystals are solid substances where atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a ...

The application of an electric field on these materials results the parallel alignment of dipoles and an increase in polarization. What makes ferroelectrics unique are the high values of polarization ...

On the afternoon of June 27, 1966, a noise like a jet cracking through the sound barrier erupted suddenly above the town of Saint-Séverin, in southwestern France. Residents recalled “detonations and ...

Tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (TZP) is commonly stabilized with 3% to 5% Yttria and has the finest grain size. Since they are almost entirely tetragonal, these zirconia grades have the maximum ...

Abstract: This article discusses combination of tetragonal crystals with LiTaO3 (LT) thin plate for complete transverse resonance suppression of surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices without ${k}^{{2}}$ ...

Science can do almost anything these days — including apparently creating a new type of ice. Which, for the record, is approximately the plot of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1971 novel “Cat’s Cradle.” A new paper ...

A team of physicists recently discovered a new phase of water ice, after they put ordinary ice under extraordinarily high pressure and melted it before letting it refreeze. The previously unknown ...