(Nanowerk News) Ever since the early 1900s work of Niels Bohr and Hendrik Lorentz, it is known that atoms display characteristic resonant behavior to light. The hallmark of a resonance is its ...

Researchers demonstrate orbital hybridization in graphene-based quantum dots, revealing how anisotropic confinement influences electronic states at the atomic scale. Quantum dots, often described as ...

Interactions between atoms and molecules are facilitated by electromagnetic fields. The bigger the distance between the partners involved, the weaker these mutual interactions are. In order for the ...

A new algorithm opens the door for using artificial intelligence and machine learning to study the interactions that happen on the surface of materials. In a new study, physicists at the University of ...

Atomic-scale order can be a problem for materials scientists, as illustrated by the mineral quartz. Quartz is a bad choice of material for a car windscreen, because it is difficult to shape and easily ...