Author Archives
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Image of the week: carbohydrate binding
This weeks image comes from a paper by Shoichi Tanimoto et al who use molecular dynamics the 3D reference interaction site model (3D-RISM) method to examine the ion dependancy of carbohydrate binding in the carbohydrate-binding module family 36 (CBM36).
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Plasmonic electron sources
Low intensity laser excitation of solid targets with periodically ordered nano-objects generates electrons with energies as high as 300eV
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Derjaguin in flatland: prewetting spreads out
Surface patterning turns first-order a prewetting transition into a continuous one.
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What happens at fluid interfaces?
Professor Dr Lucio Iso answers our questions about his research in soft matter physics and why he believes micro-robots are the future.
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Spin dynamics in p-doped Germanium
Matthieu Jamet et al introduce their latest work, explaining the principles behind spintronics and the spin current in Germanium films.
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Image of the week: plasmons, they’re hot
Our latest image of the week is taken from work by Young Keun Lee et al 2016 whose special issue paper suggests that hot electrons can mediate the energy conversion process from solar energy to electrical and chemical energy.
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Spotting Dirac-like fermions in rare earth monopnictides
Research teams from University of Central Florida, Princeton Univeristy and Los Alamos National Laboratory explain the significance and science behind their work into new topological semi-metals.
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How our ebooks are leading the way in digital publishing
Find out what’s making authors, readers and librarians choose IOP Publishing
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Spontaneous polarization predicted from first-principles
Density functional theory calculations reveal dynamics of ferroelectric phase transition and spontaneous polarization in LaBGeO5.
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Imaginary crystals made real
Non-Euclidean Crystallography is realized in a carbon-based molecular structure, related to a Black-Hole
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Image of the week: transparent conducting oxides
This week our chosen image comes from a paper where spray pyrolysis is used across a number of different temperatures to explore the divergent material performance of zinc oxide films.
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Transition metal dichalcogenides: the next-generation 2D semiconductors
A new special issue available from JPCM highlights the novel phenomena of these materials and their potential in electronic devices as a possible replacement for silicon.
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Image of the week: can you hear electrons whisper?
This week’s image comes from a recent paper which uses electrons formed by conjugated polymer nano-rings as resonators to create whispering galley modes.
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Christine Luscombe: creating organic electronics
Christine Luscombe is an Associate Professor and Vice-President of the IUPAC Polymer Division at the University of Washington, Seattle. In this interview she talks about her current research and how her childhood fascination with electronics has influenced her career choices.
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Image of the week: fermi surfaces of Dirac materials
New intriguing materials as potential candidates of Dirac physics.
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Vacuum energy gets flexible
Can a liquid’s vacuum energy vary with the state of the system and be thermodynamically anomalous?
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Meta-skin takes us one step closer to cloaking
Using rows of small liquid-metal resonators, this new metamaterial can cloak objects from radar detection.
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