A new way to create ultra-thin layers of metals makes it possible for scientists to study a new and unusual class of 2D ...

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising phenomenon in the material BiNiO3: when subjected to high pressure at low ...

More digestible than silicon Troubled Chipzilla and its mates at TSMC might want to start sweating because a bunch of Beijing ...

and has been used to prepare low-melting typesetting alloys that need to expand to fill printing moulds. Bismuth trioxide is also the main ingredient in fireworks called dragon's eggs — those ...

There are some potentially valid criticism about the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). The criticisms highlight real physical ...

Chinese scientists have recently achieved the fabrication of single-atom-layer metals with a thickness of merely ...

According to a report in Nature(via Interesting Engineering), researchers from the Chinese Academy of Physics can create ...

Zhang's team developed an innovative "van der Waals squeezing" technique. By melting metals such as bismuth and tin and using atomically flat molybdenum disulfide as an "anvil", they achieved ...

Joining other efforts to decarbonize the steel-production process such as those using hydrogen to refine iron ore, Boston Metal has pioneered a process known as molten oxide electrolysis (MOE).