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- New understanding of electron interactions
Electrons flow through most materials more like a gas than a fluid, meaning they don't interact much with one another. It was long hypothesized that electrons could flow like a fluid, but only rece... - Unconventional order in a low-dimensional magnet
The analogy between the behaviour of different quantum particles which have the same quantum nature is one of the most fascinating aspects of science. A simple but prominent example is the analogy ... - Enantiomorph distribution maps for metals and metallic alloys
Left- or right-handedness is a symmetry property that many macroscopic objects also exhibit and which is of immense importance, particularly for the bioactivity of organic molecules. Chirality is a... - Spontaneous superconducting currents in Sr2RuO4
Superconductivity is a complete loss of electrical resistance. Superconductors are not merely very good metals: it is a fundamentally different electronic state. In normal metals, electrons move in...
- Electrochemical oxygen evolution on Hf2B2Ir5 electrode material
The water electrolysis is an electrochemical way for production of hydrogen, which is considered as one of the future energy carrier molecules. Therefore, looking at numerous advantages of proton e... - Topological control by tuning structural chirality
Chiral crystals that have a distinct handedness have recently emerged as one of the most exciting new classes of topological materials. An international research team from institutions in Germany,... - Absolute Structure from Scanning Electron Microscopy
Non-centrosymmetry is a fascinating topic because crystalline materials with chiral crystal structures exist in two enantiomorphic forms i.e. with different absolute structures which are in many re...
- Rewriting the story of unconventional superconductivity of Sr2RuO4
The phenomenon of superconductivity is one of the most fascinating properties of electrons in solids. At low temperatures the electrons co-operate so strongly that they are able to move around with... - Unconventional Metal-Framework Interaction in MgSi5
Cage compounds of silicon are promising materials in the fields of superconductivity and thermoelectricity. The extended networks serve as hosts, which hold cationic guest species in large cavities... - Speeding up the hydrogen production by the magic topological surface states
The hydrogen economy is considered to be one of the best options for providing renewable energy and, thereby, contributing to mitigating today's environmental challenges. The energy density of ... - Discovery of new fermions in topological chiral crystals
Chiral topology is the new frontier in the field of quantum matter. In the recent study, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden discovered new fermions b...
- Water splitting electrocatalysts with in situ fast surface reconstruction
The development of efficient bifunctional electrodes with extraordinary mass activity and robust stability is a challenging goal for the hydrogen production via water splitting. Surface reconstruct... - Local magnetism in intermetallic compound MnSiPt rules the chemical bond
A crystal structure can be understood as a result of bonding interactions (covalent, ionic, van der Waals, etc.) between the constituting atoms. If the forces caused by these interactions are equil... - Charge order and electron localization in a molecule-based solid
Charge ordering in mixed-valence compounds, which usually contain positively charged cations in more than one formal charge state, is of crucial importance for materials science. Many functional p...
- Weyl semimetals split water
Catalysis significantly affects our way of life. Catalysis plays an important role in many biological and technological processes. For example, the world's food supply is based on a famous catalyt...
- Hidden order and 5f electron density
URu2Si2 is a mysterious quantum material. Thirty years ago an ordering transition was found at 17 degrees above absolute zero temperature from specific heat (entropy) measurements. Since then, this... - Metal vacancy orderings in defect anti-perovskite Fe2SeO
In crystalline materials, the ordering of two or more different anions is far from understood. The main reason is probably that Nature (our role-model) cannot perform this chemistry easily, as the ... - Exploring heavy fermions from macroscopic to microscopic length scales
Strong electronic correlations in solids may result in fascinating phenomena like unconventional superconductivity and quantum criticality in heavy fermion metals. The latter provide a particularly... - Unconventional quasiparticles predicted in conventional crystals
The research, published online this week in the journal Science, was conducted by a team at Princeton University in collaboration with researchers at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC... - Discovery of a new class of multiferroic materials
For next generation data storage devices the fast switching of magnetic states by applying electrical fields (voltage) will be of high importance. This switching could be realized in so-called magn... - A new superconductor prepared by an electrochemical route
Iron-based superconducors were discovered a few years ago as the compound family with the second highest transition temperature besides the cuprate high temperature superconductors. They are promis...