Read article: Vortex cannon generates toroidal electromagnetic pulses
Electromagnetic vortex pulses could be employed for information encoding, high-capacity communication and more
Read article: Electro-active material ‘learns’ to play Pong
Memory-like behaviour emerges in a polymer gel
Read article: Metasurface makes thermal sources emit laser-like light
Pillar-studded surface just hundreds of nanometres thick allows researchers to control direction, polarization and phase of thermal radiation
Read article: Diamond dust for MRI, 4D printing creates advanced devices
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Read article: The route to ‘net zero’: how the manufacturing industry can help
Research teams at Cranfield University in the UK are developing novel materials and processes in the quest for greener, more sustainable manufacturing
Read article: Sucking up crude oil with laser-treated cork
Cork treated with femtosecond laser processing could be used to clean up large-scale marine oil spills
Read article: Quasiparticles called merons appear in a synthetic antiferromagnet for the first time
Collective topological chiral spin textures could lead to new concepts for spintronics devices
Read article: New metamaterial could make true one-way glass
Theoretically proposed structure could also improve the efficiency of solar cells
Read article: Surface ‘signature’ could distinguish exotic topological insulators
Changes in the polarization of light reflecting off a material’s surface could indicate whether it is a higher-order topological insulator, say theorists
Read article: Spiralling phonons turn a paramagnetic material into a magnet
Collective motion of atoms breaks the time-reversal symmetry of electrons in a rare-earth halide
