ScienceDaily: Matter & Energy News

A research collaboration can read out optically previously indistinguishable spin states by using a newly developed spectroscopy method.

Researchers have discovered that the junctures at the facet edges of 3D semiconductor particles have 2D properties, which can be leveraged for photoelectrochemical processes -- in which light is used to drive chemical reactions -- that can boost solar energy conversion technologies.

The field of self-repairing materials is rapidly expanding, and what used to be science fiction might soon become reality, thanks to scientists who developed eco-friendly nanocrystal semiconductors capable of self-healing. Their findings describe the process, in which a group of materials called double perovskites display self-healing properties after being damaged by the radiation of an electron beam.