Scientists made a stretchable lithium battery you can bend, cut, or stab
The Li-ion batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric cars are usually packed in…
A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor
Still, there were some distinct challenges involved with MoS2. In normal silicon, a transistor's threshold…
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Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors
The team found that, when set up to operate on the verge of punch-through mode,…
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Study: Hot Vesuvian ash cloud really did turn a brain to glass
According to Petrone et al., usually such brain matter would be "saponified" by the extreme…
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The seemingly indestructible fists of the mantis shrimp can take a punch
To find out how much force a mantis shrimp’s dactyl clubs can possibly withstand, the…
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Researchers figure out how to get fresh lithium into batteries
In their testing, they use a couple of unusual electrode materials, such as a chromium…
Using 2D materials on chips without destroying the wiring
Getting the temperature of TMDs growth down enough to make large-scale manufacturing feasible could be…
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The physics of ugly Christmas sweaters
In 2018, a team of French physicists developed a rudimentary mathematical model to describe the…