Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Nanoscale ripples in thin materials, caused by thermal energy at room temperature, significantly influence their mechanical properties, affecting their potential ...

A RIKEN study shows that squeezing the right amount of potassium ions between the atomic layers of molybdenum disulfide can turn it from a semiconductor into a metal, superconductor or insulator.

Thomas Franosch's research focuses on complex transport phenomena in the fields of biological physics, soft matter and nanophysics. In the combination of analytically solvable models and computer ...

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