MOF thin films, as porous materials, play a key role in many potential applications. Researchers have now demonstrated that the prototypical example for thin films has a completely different structure ...

Due to their high porosity, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are regarded as promising materials for innovative applications, ...

Physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have examined a fundamental property of quantum mechanics in ...

Drawing from his own experience in experimental science, Professor G Ravindra Kumar explained how AI could help address ...

Advanced imaging techniques have evolved to see beyond the diffraction limit. W. E. Moerner spoke to Nature Photonics about the techniques involved. For near-field optics, super-resolution has been ...

When viruses travel through the air in tiny droplets, they can quickly start to dry out. Yet many viruses remain infectious ...

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Researchers demonstrate a fabrication process of yttrium aluminum garnet doped with cerium 3D micro-objects, producing ...

Halogen bonds are robust and tuneable enough to build permanently porous frameworks, new research shows. The findings ...

As a hobby, 3D printing is exploding in popularity, but one problem with FDM printing has remained unsolved for years, but ...