Condensed matter

Before learning what can be done with graphene, we need to know what can be done to graphene.

Researchers use computer simulations to learn how water forms different kinds of ice.

Researchers create safer batteries with perforations that prevent full-scale failures.

Two experiments test a 50-year-old theory on particles that move in a straight line.

Researchers figure out how to cheaply grow large shape memory alloy crystals.

French scientists have created a material with convention-defying magnetic properties.

Scientists have learned how to measure the relationship between superconductivity and vibrating electrons.

Scientists are developing greener and cheaper ways to pave our way to a solar energy future.

2016 Nobel Prize in Physics honors theoretical discoveries that help scientists understand unusual properties of materials, such as superconductivity and superfluidity.

2016 Nobel Prize honors "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter."

Physicists link electron pair density to the temperature limit of superconductivity.