Steel reinforcement corrosion is a perennial problem for concrete as a construction material. Engineers are looking at novel ...

Gravity can exist without mass.” It’s a statement that upends a century of astrophysical dogma and, for some, sounds as ...

Researchers reveal how hydration shapes peptide assembly on 2D materials, offering new insights for bioelectronics and ...

Kanazawa University, report in Small, on how short peptides self-assemble linearly on atomically-thick solid surfaces, such ...

The researchers designed short and simple dipeptides, mainly consisting of alternating amino acids with aromatic side groups, tyrosine (Y) and histidine (H) (Fig. 2). The former is hydrophobic residue ...

Understanding the electronic, structural, and dynamical properties of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and its interface with water is crucial, as its layered structure, vacancy defects, and ...

An illustration depicts pairs of superconducting electrons in rhombohedral graphene (the middle lattice structure) that spin in clockwise or counterclockwise direction (corresponding to blue and ...

The team put graphite (another super-hard material) under an intense amount of pressure, before heating it to 1,800 K (that's 1,527 °C or 2,780 °F). The resulting diamond has a hexagonal lattice ...

Science Tech Culture diamond graphite Scientists engineer ultra-hard synthetic diamond from graphite The lab-made diamond features a unique hexagonal lattice structure By Shawn Knight February 18 ...

Tight-binding calculations, using a two-dimensional model of the graphite lattice, lead to a point of contact of valence and conduction bands at the corner of the reduced Brillouin zone. A ...

Pilot-scale testing has demonstrated that Graphjet’s artificial graphite can achieve purity levels of up to 99.99%, validating the Company’s technology and its ability to effectively compete ...

Achieved 99.99% graphite purity and 98.8% graphitization, two key milestones further validating the quality of Graphjet Technology’s technology and its viability at scale Technology delivers the ...