Today's Tech News: Notable or Not?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104659 "iron: excellent properties/ low cost, but brittle lattice causes difficulty using high-density flux pinning centers required for carrying large, lossless currents... overcome utilizing asymmetric stress field to engineer flux pinning centers: synergistically controlled hydrostatic pressure/ shear stress using scalable extrusion...  current density rose from 1.5×10⁵ A/cm² to 4.5×10⁵ A/cm², while at 30 T reached 2.1×10⁵ A/cm², 5X higher (>30 T WM5 water-cooled magnet provided magnetic field)... high-field: fusion/ particle accelerators"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104606 "Janus transition metal dichalcogenides, such as molybdenum sulfur selenide/ molybdenum disulfide... Janus means top/ bottom atomic layers different chemical species, giving material internal electrical polarity/ high external force/ light sensitivity, which together with strong coupling between layers causes atoms' displacement... optical switches/ components for photonic chips: less heat/ greater efficiency, than electrical... displays, imaging, quantum light sources, detectors sensing smallest vibrations/ pressure changes"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104086 "DC-powered LEDs require 2 contacts (p, n) causing alignment/ fabrication challenges as device sizes shrink to nanoscale, overcome using AC requiring only 1... 300 nm thick nanorods for high pixel densities... electrons to photons conversion (quantum efficiency) controls AC current frequency tuning by the manufacturer, enabling visible flicker elimination while maintaining efficient light generation... also: optical communications, biomedical devices... more efficient nanoscale LED devices"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104349 "avoids extreme temperatures/ very high magnetic fields... most measures use values linked to constants of nature; not so for physical quantities such as mass/ electrical units whose metrological traceability so complex that feasible only at national metrology institutes... overcome using memristor switching providing stable resistance values linked to constants of nature... silver nanofilaments are adjustable with atomic precision applying electrical bias, so conductance changes not continuously but in discrete quantum steps"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104357 "single organic layer... 2 standard aluminum electrodes also acting as microcavity mirrors... replaces traditional complicated organic stacks, indium tin oxide, complex color-mixing chemicals... avoids complexity/ cost of mixing red, green, blue dopants by using single, metal-free, sky-blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence... adjusting cavity layer thickness reinforces certain colors... fits existing vacuum-deposition lines... reflective/ flexible surface compatible... future: improve brightness, efficiency, stability"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104295 "only final intensity or amplitude of target scene is known, not the crucial wavefront phase, so large datasets pre-computed holograms as labels unobtainable... also, trade-off between reconstruction quality/ computational speed... overcome by learning mapping between target scene/ its hologram... lightweight multi-wavelength network creates realistic depth perception by computationally simulating optical field... future: overcome full-color still needing 3 separate network models, which triples computational resources"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101843 "overcomes slow convergence, overfitting, high computational requirements, black box nature... training each network layer individually without back-propagation still faces information loss in input images, reducing classification accuracy, solved using: Label-Wise Noise Labeling preventing pixel information loss, Cosine Similarity-Based Contrastive Loss preserving spatial information for accurate image classification, Layer Grouping by output characteristics/ adding auxiliary layers, improving performance"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103592 "contains multiple cations in near-equimolar ratios, forming highly disordered yet stable lattices resisting phase segregation... defects enable oxygen vacancy control, facilitating low-power, forming-free resistive switching... tunable band structure, ionic mobility, electron transport create multifunctional platforms for memory, sensing, learning... compatible with CMOS integration... multilevel conductance states enable accurate synaptic weight updates essential for neural network operation"

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-propeller-luminescent-molecules-chirality-solvent.html "molecule, of 6 highly emissive perylene diimide chromophores arranged like blades, obtained in high yield spontaneously twisting in optically active conformation, exhibiting bright circularly polarized luminescence... different helical conformations/ complete polarization inversion measured in chloroform versus dichloromethane solvent, caused by internal phenethyl groups' rotation... contrasts with static chiral molecular designs... optical switching, molecular sensors, polarization devices, quantum photonics"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251102011155.htm "generating both even/ odd THz... highly symmetrical materials like graphene only produce odd harmonics, difficult achieving even harmonics needed for practical applications, overcome utilizing topological insulator thin layers of Bi2Se₃ and van der Waals heterostructures made from (InₓBi₁₋ₓ)2Se₃, with split ring resonators amplifying incoming light... frequency up-conversion at even 6.4 and odd 9.7 THz... compact, tunable THz light sources powered by optics: ultrafast optoelectronic components/ sensors"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-wetware-scientists-human-mini-brains.html "human brain cells fed nutrients... 1 million X more energy efficient than artificial neurons, also endlessly lab reproducible... purchases stem cells, turns them into neurons, collected into mm-wide clumps/ organoids around fruit fly larvae brain's size, electrodes attached allowing monitoring internal discussion... can stimulate with small electric current, responding with a spike in activity or not (computers' 1's and 0's)... challenges: encoding data in/ interpreting data out, live for up to 6 months... read braille, study brain disease"

  https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102359 "as AI model grows/ processed sentences become longer, computational load/ memory requirements surge, leading to speed reductions/ high energy consumption... overcome using sequential memory-based Mamba structure processing information over time, increasing efficiency... further improved with Transformer–Mamba Hybrid Model including PIMBA processing inside memory, combining advantages of both Transformer and Mamba"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103741 "oxidized by treating with heat in air... fills oxygen vacancies/ changes chromium atoms' oxidation state, collectively allowing conduction electrons to pass through more easily... also applicable to other materials with drastically tunable physical properties... for use in memristors, electronic elements encoding memory of previous states, critical for developing more power-efficient, next-generation AI computing chips that can meet the growing demand for greater computing power"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103920 "defect where nitrogen substitutes for carbon atom next to vacancy (missing carbon atom)... defect possesses long-lived spin that can couple to/ sense magnetic field... defects densely packed, confined to 2D layer with designed orientations to exhibit strong dipolar interactions... improves signal-to-noise ratio... solid-state, no vacuum chambers/ lasers... methods: (1) spin-squeezing increasing precision like adding finer gradations to ruler, (2) amplifying signal without increasing noise... future: greater control over spins' spatial positioning"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104139 "overcomes poorly controlled interfaces leading to complex fabrication, inefficient charge transport, significant energy loss... elegant/ efficient double molecular bridge uses single multifunctional additive 4-F-PEAFa molecule which simultaneously creates 2 perovskite transport layer bridges: 1 moving holes/ 1 moving electrons... record: 25.6% efficiency, up to 0.88 fill factor... unencapsulated device maintained >90% of initial efficiency after 2000 hours at 85°C or 1000 hours under continuous operation"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104133 "overcomes n-type organic semiconductors' limited availability/ ambient instability... gold(III) chloride (AuCl₃) dopant ions become oxidized, performing substitutional chlorination: chlorine atom replaces atom or group on polymer backbone, chemically/ structurally altering polymer's structure... reorganizes charge transport pathways... p–n organic homojunction diode using single polymer doped at 2 different concentrations, rectification ratio 10s of 1,000sX greater than single-material diodes... flexible electronics"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104099 "restores original cathode material for reuse in new batteries... ternary molten salt (heated: lithium hydroxide, lithium nitrate, lithium salicylate)... high-nickel NCM811 loses lithium/ develops structural defects, restored moving lithium ions into damaged material/ reorganizes atoms to original ordered layered structure/ unwanted surface rock salt layer removed... achieves 196 mAh/g initial discharge capacity, maintaines 76% of that capacity after 200 cycles... operates at relatively low temperatures, no: strong acids/ toxic solvents"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103951 "energy-absorbing box with aluminum shell filled with Polyether Ether Ketone (PEEK) high-performance thermoplastic core, arranged in regular hexagonal honeycomb pattern... alternative to hollow structures or heavy aluminum foam fillers in car's front-end, 1st line of defense in low speed crash... increased average crushing load 18.1% for more stable, progressive, efficient energy dissipation... approximately 19% lighter than conventional aluminum foam, for exceptional specific energy absorption (strength-to-weight ratio)"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103766 "hybrid quantum devices: classical electronics + quantum technologies... failed attempts used ion implantation/ introduced imperfections, overcome using molecular beam epitax... with precise placement, gallium atoms substitute neatly into germanium lattice, growing thin crystal layers (epitaxy), reshaping electronic bands to be superconductive... scalable, foundry-ready quantum devices... quantum circuits, sensors, and low-power cryogenic electronics"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103817 "barriers to hydrogen-powered vehicles: platinum catalyst nearly 40% total system cost/ limited cell lifespan, overcome using multi-walled carbon nanotube conductive backbone/ ZIF-8-derived carbon as branches providing abundant sites for platinum group metals, enhancing corrosion resistance through high graphitization... low 0.1 mgPt/cm² platinum loading, 12.7% increased electrode peak power density, 30% reduced concentration loss, >25K hours stable operation, 50.8% of original performance after 5K cycles"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-ai-efficiency-advances-spintronic-memory.html "earlier designs relied on analog computing, which while energy-efficient is less precise than digital... Spin-Transfer Torque Magnetic-Random Access Memory spintronic chip stores data within magnetic tunnel junction... different magnetic alignments create varying electrical resistances corresponding to binary states... 7.4–29.6 ns computation latencies, 7.02–112.3 TOPS/W energy efficiencies for fully parallel lossless matrix–vector multiplications across precision configurations ranging from 4 to 16 bits"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103865 "scalable, patent-pending, potentially supports 10X more devices than previous approaches using same bandwidth, reduces latency while maintaining high data rate for all connected devices... doubles spectrum efficiency, reducing waste... decouples control and data beams in hardware...  delay-phased array front end sends separate, strong beams simultaneously across same wideband channel: one beam is dedicated to control, others are dedicated to data... satellite communication"  Related: Researchers report terahertz communication breakthroughs for 6G networks https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-terahertz-communication-breakthroughs-6g-networks.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-memristor-ferroelectric-memory-energy-efficient.html "share similar structural stack... memristors apply trained models, offering energy efficiency during read operations/ supporting in-memory computing... ferroelectric capacitors: store information via electric field switchable reversible ferroelectric polarization, endurance/ extremely low energy consumption during programming... integrates silicon-doped HfO₂ (of FeCAPs) with titanium scavenging layer (of memristors)... efficient machine learning, stores analog weights, edge AI without forgetting prior knowledge"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103593 "high power consumption/ complex integration of electronics in edge computing for mobile devices/ security systems, overcome using mV-scale optoelectronic polymer memristors. Application & Performance: The researchers used these memristors to build a reservoir computing framework, which achieved a 97.15% accuracy in fingerprint recognition... scalable, solution-based fabrication on flexible substrates, making them low-cost and compatible with large-area flexible electronics, highlighting potential for widespread adoption"

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-mirrorless-laser-physicists-source.html "superradiant emission uses atoms as quantum emitters that build their own feedback mechanism/ frequency selection via dipole-dipole interaction... pumping only fraction of emitters with laser energy causes synchronized collective radiation, remaining unpumped passive emitters act as frequency-selective feedback for active emitters... takes place of traditional optical resonator... highly directional, spectrally pure... nanophotonics, precision measurements, quantum sensors/ clocks, on-chip devices"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103431 "ionic-liquid-based materials suffered leakage, environmental instability, poor durability, overcome using polymer electrolyte where ions are permanently anchored to polymer chains... precisely controls triboelectric materials' polarity... allows for triboelectric polarity (positive/negative) tuning by adjusting polymer structure... cationic polymer exhibited 83V output voltage, about 2X higher; anionic polymer achieved 34V, 4X higher than conventional... minimal charge loss/ excellent thermal stability for over week even at 60℃"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-plasma-treatment-strategy-semiconductor-device.html "Al-doped TiO₂, used as dielectric shielding against high electrical fields, suffers electrical leakage/ reduced stability, overcome by exposing shielding to argon/ oxygen plasma... transfers energy to shielding surface, facilitating atomic-scale migration of aluminum dopants/ reordering of the crystal lattice... fills oxygen vacancies that caused electrical leakage... 30% higher dielectric constants, up to nearly 40X lower leakage currents... Al atoms settled into lattice positions restoring crystallinity"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-electronics-optical-feature-unprecedented-latency.html "integrated on-chip system with tunable power splitters/ precise delay lines... matrix-vector multiplication performs feature extraction at 12.5 GHz in <250.5 ps, a record (>10 GHz expected in real-world applications)... better performance in image classification/ increased pixel accuracy in semantic segmentation (such as identifying organs in computed tomography scans)... requires fewer electronic parameters for more efficient hybrid AI... multitasking applications in scene recognition, medical assistance, digital finance"

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/10/crystal-strontium-titanate-cryogenic-photonics-quantum-computing "tested at -450°F... electro-optic effects 40X stronger than the most-used electro-optic material/ non-linearities 20X greater than best-known non-linear optical material lithium niobate... quantum computers' transducers/ switches, space exploration/ cryogenic fuel tanks, manipulation of frequency/ phase/ intensity/ bending of light by exploiting non-linear/ electro-optic effects... tunability further enhanced 4X substituting oxygen isotopes into crystal, effectively tuning the material towards a quantum criticality threshold"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103063 "existing joint phase modulation unsuitable for high-throughput optical information processing, overcome with: fast modulation, large information processing capacity, Lithium Niobate on Insulator dynamic photonic platform... diatomic integrated metasurface combining geometric/ detour phases as addressing unit, enabling 4-channel multiplexing expanded into 2x2 metasurface network on waveguide crossing array... on-chip holographic displays, high-capacity optical communication, integrated photonic information processing"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-layer-microfluidic-cooling-device-small.html "3-layers each etched into silicon substrate's back: tapered manifold ensuring even coolant distribution (top), microjet shooting coolant up onto chip's surface (middle), etched microchannel with sawtooth-shaped sidewalls carrying warm coolant out (bottom)... single-phase water pumping uses only 0.9 W cm−2 power... up to 13K coefficient of performance and 1K W cm−2 heat flux dissipation at 65°K maximum chip temperature rise... removes heat significantly more effectively than most previously introduced strategies"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251024041822.htm "laser pulses coherently excite pairs of magnons (quanta of spin waves/ collective magnetic vibrations) within crystal... tested on haematite (iron ore), a common, naturally grown crystal, eliminating the need for rare or exotic materials... fast data transmission/ storage at THz speeds without the heat build-up that slows down current systems... exhibited room-temperature quantum effects, such as producing light-induced Bose-Einstein condensates of high-energy magnons, which typically only occur near absolute zero"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251023031612.htm "uses waveguides' photonic topological characteristics and the quantum behavior of two-level atoms to store and transfer energy... dissipation, which usually degrades performance, can temporarily increase charging power... topological nature of the waveguides allows for a nearly perfect transfer of energy... overcomes vulnerability to energy loss and decoherence, paving the way for the potential realization of efficient nanoscale batteries, optical quantum communication, and distributed quantum computing systems"

https://www.aau.dk/new-technology-can-store-green-energy-for-months-n151116 "when electricity is needed, the stored heat is converted back into electricity using thermophotovoltaic cells. These specialized devices convert IR emitted by the heat source into electricity... nanostructured emitter can withstand extreme temperatures, up to 1400 °C, and has shown stable operation for over six months, making it suitable for long-term energy storage... reduces energy storage costs by up to 80% compared to traditional batteries and can also be used to recover waste heat in industrial processes"

https://www.newequipment.com/home/product/55325167/exowatt-p3-modular-energy-system-delivers-24-hour-renewable-power "heat stored in sustainably sourced U.S. -made: silicon-based composite, clay, and ceramic blocks... for industry: electricity-intensive users such as data centers, and high-temperature thermal energy uses such as manufacturing/ chemical processing... modular, scalable, each unit fits in a 40 ft shipping container footprint... generates electricity by way of Stirling engine at <4 cents/ kWh... minimal maintenance, rapid deployment... unified interface gives operators real-time control from single module to entire fleet" See also: The trouble with Exowatt’s ‘groundbreaking’ tech: We’ve seen it before https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-trouble-with-exowatts-groundbreaking-energy-tech-weve-seen-it-before/

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103251 "van der Waals squeezing reorganizes atoms from slightly buckled to perfectly flat, eliminating energy band gap, allowing electrons to move freely making conductive like a metal... trilayer heterostructure: bismuth squeezed between 2 semiconductor molybdenum disulfide layers, 1 forming low-resistance (Ohmic) contact, other forming high-resistance (Schottky) barrier... applying perpendicular external electric field switches Ohmic contact between top/ bottom layers... asymmetric, reprogrammable, energy-efficient nanoelectronics" Related : Controlling next-generation energy conversion materials with simple pressure https://phys.org/news/2025-11-generation-energy-conversion-materials-simple.html

https://idw-online.de/en/news860330 "consists of OLED/ optical antennas... as bright as larger 5 X 5 μm conventional OLED pixel... enables high-resolution display (1920 x 1080 pixels) to fit onto 1 square mm area integrable into compact devices like arms of AR glasses projecting light onto lenses... miniaturizing caused uneven current distribution/ destructive filament formation short-circuiting pixel, overcome insulating antenna leaving only 200-nm circular opening, blocking current injections from edges/ corners... future: increase pixel's 1% efficiency"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-minimal-pixels-highest-resolution-visible.html "highest possible resolution visible to human eye: each pixel roughly corresponds to 1 photoreceptor in eye... sub-wavelength structures act as meta-materials in highly miniaturized spectrometer... few square mm size is orders of magnitude smaller, fits on phone... measures UV to near-IR with sensitivity comparable to big devices... rapidly applying range of <1 volt voltages, measures light captured at each voltage, then computational program accurately recreates light's signature in <1 ms... hand-held spectroscopy devices" Related: Bridging light, microwaves and electrons for precision calibration https://phys.org/news/2025-10-bridging-microwaves-electrons-precision-calibration.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103121 "nanowire structure oriented transversely to optical waveguide positions nanowires' corners outside waveguide, eliminating efficiency loss source common in conventional hairpin structures... hybrid integration: flexible membrane transferred onto waveguide chip... cascaded 2 comb nanowire detectors for redundancy on 1 waveguide, for detection efficiency crucial for large-scale photonic quantum computing/ other scalable quantum photonic chip applications" Related: Synthesis method enables small-diameter, high-density carbon nanowires https://phys.org/news/2025-10-synthesis-method-enables-small-diameter.html

https://quantumzeitgeist.com/chinese-researchers-achieve-98-scalability-on-sunway-supercomputer-this-week/ "scaled quantum simulations to real molecular sizes using 37 million processor cores by training neural network to model electron arrangements/ movements within a molecule... SW26010-Pro chips including clustered cores highly effective for parallelizable, computationally demanding tasks... bridges AI/ quantum science: existing classical supercomputing resources accurately modeling complex quantum systems... materials and drug discovery without needing fully realized quantum computers"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-thin-tunnel-transistors-wearable-small.html "thermionic limit sets minimum required voltage for efficient electrical current switching... operates below thermionic limit, replacing standard thermionic injection mechanism with band-to-band tunneling quantum mechanical process... hybrid inorganic-organic source-channel heterojunction combining: deep-conduction-banded inorganic metal oxide molybdenum trioxide/ single-crystalline thin film... compatible with existing fabrication... record signal amplification efficiency... ultra-low-power, energy-constrained applications"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102963 "pressure repeatedly forces water into/ out of nanoscale pores in water-repellent nanoporous silicon monolith... up to 9% energy conversion efficiency... friction electricity generated at solid silicon/ liquid water interface... no exotic materials... autonomous, maintenance-free sensor systems in applications such as water detection, smart garments for sports and health monitoring, and haptic robotics"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-ultra-compact-semiconductor-power-gen.html "analog + digital circuits in minimal footprint ideal for highly integrated System-on-Chips: 0.032 mm² when made with 28-nm CMOS process thanks to elimination of bulky external capacitors... digital-to-analog transfer method/ local ground generator for stable power delivery/ effective noise filtration, even during rapid changes in current demand... 54 mV voltage ripple during rapid 99 mA current swings, voltage restored in 667 ns., –53.7 dB power supply rejection ratio at 10 kHz with 100 mA load... 0.029 Figure of Merit"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-reinventing-technology-benefit-centers.html "replaces outdated, inherently slow virtual memory management where single machine has to run many different programs for many different users simultaneously... oblivious to application developers... order of magnitude higher performance/ efficiency... rack-scale computing with a purpose-built collection of servers that behave as a single computer in a data center... with network fabrics that connect an entire rack of servers together, cloud services can use all hardware, not just memory, more efficiently in data centers"

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-dual-torque-electron-magnetic-domain.html "faster, smarter, more energy-efficient electronic devices... spintronic memory reading or writing requires efficiently shifting domain walls... artificial antiferromagnetic thin film of cobalt/ Iridium/ platinum alternating layers... 2 cobalt layers coupled aligning magnetic moments in opposite directions... platinum layers generate electron spin streams via Spin Hall Effect spin torque on cobalt layers' magnetic moments... spin torques from top/ bottom platinum layers combine as dual-torque moving domain walls"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102815 "improved synthesis techniques/ purifying raw arsenic to produce cleaner crystals... also effective semiconductor, potential silicon replacement in electronics... easier and cheaper to manufacture than diamond, which was previously considered the best thermal conductor, and possesses properties—like a wider band gap and much higher carrier mobility—that could lead to significantly better thermal management in devices such as cell phones, high-powered electronics, and data centers"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102574 "4-level modulation strategy for dual 3-phase open-winding permanent magnet synchronous motor drive, using 2:1:1 DC-link voltage ratio across 3 DC sources to achieve 4-level effect... average current Total Harmonic Distortion reduced >29%, use of Unified Duty Ratio Compensation enabled 50% further reduction during voltage deviations... switching frequencies significantly reduced... EV propulsion, aerospace actuators, industrial automation" Related: Energy-efficient predictive control strategy boosts performance of electric vehicle drives https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102558

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102173 "traditionally relies on difficult to miniaturize vacuum pumps/ tubing, overcome using magnetic composite particles that can be made to attract/ cling to one another stiffening material when magnetic field applied... falls apart softening material when field switched off... mm-sized, dice-shaped particles made from magnetic and non-magnetic materials surrounded by wireless magnetic coils controlling aggregation... future: scale down to µm-level for microrobotics, smart materials, biomedical, micro-manipulation"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102169 "antennas remain stable/ high-performing even when bent or exposed to high humidity/ temperature variations, salt... processor chip can correct errant signals from the flexible antenna in real-time, compensating for material deformation and vibrations... smart textiles, drone or aircraft communications, edge sensing, and various applications in the auto, aviation, and space industries"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101496 "ceramic aerogels typically highly brittle, overcome using unitary structured dual-phase nanofibrous core for ultra- flexible deformation/ nanoporous sheath for thermal superinsulation... introduces numerous nanopores suppressing air conduction, resulting in a κ less than 24 mW·m−1·K−1... enables all nanoporous aerogels to be orderly assembled onto fibers' surface, increasing stability... mechanical flexibility with compressive strain up to 80%, fracture strain up to 21.9%, bending strain up to 100%... up to 1,300°C working temperature"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102155 "self-assembly enables precise control: polyoxometalate hybrid comb-like crosslinked polymer networks integrate polymer scaffolds with superacidic phosphotungstic acid clusters in PEM high-temperature fuel cells... overcomes: struggle with rapid conductivity loss under anhydrous conditions >100°C, trade-off between conductivity/ strength... proton conductivity: 8.5 × 10−4 S·cm−1 at 130 °C, up to 18.1 MPa mechanical strength, consistent operation >160 hours, thermal stability at >150 °C"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102332 "digitally processed magnetic flux quantum signal carrier based on tiny magnetic fields, determined by physical constants... mitigates performance degradation in large-scale neural networks reliant on analog neuron circuits' sensitivity to variation in elemental characteristics... this robustness due to the inherent digital nature of single flux quantum logic enabling ideal input-output... Rectified Linear Unit activation function solves vanishing gradient problem... massive, complex brain-like circuits for neuromorphic computers"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102183 "writes new instructions into material using high-intensity laser, precisely heating tiny spot above 85°C, melting internal magnetic microcapsules, then, external magnetic field orients freed magnetic particles encoding specific instruction before spot rapidly cools locking new programming in place... to bend, 2nd low-intensity laser warms larger area above 60°C, softening material's shape-memory polymer skeleton, making pliable... 2nd magnetic field then acts on written instructions, guiding material to fold, twist, bend"

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-school-material-power-quantum-center.html "barium titanate reshaped into 40 nm metastable strained thin films converts at room-temperature for fiber optics by >10X than when in bulk form at cryogenic temperature for superconducting qubits... but metastable phase created here not only avoids this cryogenic conversion drop, but also shows exceptional response... future: test concept with other materials... modulators, switches, sensors, quantum communication via fiber optics"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101019 "withstands repeated heavy loads even at 400 to 600°C... foam: hollow spheres of stainless steel, nickel, or other metals/ alloys embedded in metallic matrix... absorbs compressive forces... better heat insulation than conventional metals/ alloys... jet engine vane/ ducts/ exhaust flaps, turbine blades, hypersonic vehicle airframes/ hot trailing wing edges, gas/ steam turbines, car brakes, nuclear reactor fuel cladding, storing/ transporting nuclear material, hazardous materials, explosives, vehicle armor, body armor."

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101744 "miniaturization crucial for flexible electronics, smart health, IoT, but current design approaches are reaching quantum mechanical limit/ skyrocketing cost, overcome using vertical stacking... fabrication mostly at room temperature, none beyond 150°C, so no damage to bottom layers as new layers added... layers' surfaces kept smoother, better aligned... scaling vertically: increasing functional density far beyond today's limits"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102393 "single-phase solid (Ti, Zr)C carbide ceramic doped with 25% nitrogen content, restricting dislocation formation/ movement by reducing stacking fault energy, then high-temperature aging triggering spinodal decomposition, creating complex lamellar nanostructure... both harder/ more cracking resistant... 40% hardness increase, 50% fracture toughness increase... excessive nitrogen content or over-aging detrimental... high-temperature equipment, machining/ cutting tools, wear-resistant components, aerospace engines" Related: Electrospun nanofiber‑based ceramic aerogels: Synergistic strategies for design and functionalization https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102351

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102339 "singular dispersion equation gives rise to narwhal-shaped wavefunctions, combining local power-law enhancement with global exponential decay, trapping light in lossless dielectrics... electromagnetic eigenmode field distributions' rapid decay across space enhances energy density per unit volume, achieving strong spatial confinement/ light–matter interaction strength... avoids ohmic loss, enabling compact, energy-efficient photonic devices... also developed near-field scanning optical microscopy technique"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102028 "replaces antenna/ electronic mixer with new medium: atoms released from rubidium placed in glass cell vacuum harnessed for 3-laser controlled choreography... rubidium vapor, sealed enclosure, lasers convert radio waves into infrared radiation... non-invasive measurements enable recording weak fields without metal antenna disturbance... concealable wiretap... future: detector could take form of mere thickening on optical fiber containing lasers, as well as received IR, sent in opposite direction in optical fiber"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101989 "silica fiber doped with Nd3+ ions emitting photons across wide range of wavelengths including telecom standard, fiber then tapered wherein fiber section heated/ pulled gradually reducing thickness enabling accessing spatially separated individual Nd3+ within tapered section for selective laser pumped excitation... carries quantum information with extremely low loss... cost-effective, wavelength selectable, integrates into existing networks for all-fiber-integrated quantum communication networks... multi-qubit processing unit"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101937 "time crystals, defined by their lowest possible energy state which perpetually repeats movements without external energy input, made part of optomechanical system that can adjust the crystal’s properties... radio waves pump magnons into near-absolute 0 Helium-3 superfluid, then pump turned off whereby magnons formed time crystal on top staying in motion up to 108 cycles/ several minutes before fading, whereby time crystal connected itself to nearby mechanical oscillator, adopting same frequency/ amplitude"

https://bioengineer.org/stable-licl-electrolyte-with-in-situ-anion-receptor/ "in-situ synthesis also enhances selectivity in ion transfer, ensuring lithium ions preferentially conducted over other, potentially harmful ions, reducing risk of side reactions... lower viscosity/ favorable thermal behavior improves electrochemical stability... sustainable materials, longer lifetime, safer, reduced internal resistance, increased efficiency... future: performance/ safety optimization, scalability/ production, applicability to other types of ionic liquids/ salt solutions... grid storage, renewable integration, portable electronics"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101511 "no complicated steps or need for seed crystal to jumpstart process... laser heat leads to crystallization... future: larger and more complex patterns, multiple lasers of different colors for more intricate crystal patterns, attempting to create entirely new materials that can’t be made through conventional methods... more efficient solar panels, brighter LEDs, advanced electronics, medical imaging"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102020 "scalable/ stable high-yield production, 80% transparency with monolayer cellular structure preserved intact... 0.41% absolute photoelectric conversion efficiency enhancement in solar cells, native cellulose alignment and wax-cellulose interfaces enable 88% broadband light-scattering haze... squid-inspired peeling: peroxyformic acid selectively disrupts parenchyma cell bonds, preserving cellulose structure... retains native cellulose I crystallinity (64.76%) and uniaxial fibril alignment (Hermans factor: 0.23)."

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101723 "applying this material to building roofs improves efficiency, reducing annual heating/ cooling energy costs by up to 26.5%... controlling laser's output intensity changes material's optical/ thermal properties: high-power laser transforms surface into white porous structure (SiO2-centered) reflecting sunlight lowering temperature 5.89°C, low-power laser creates black porous structure (SiC-centered) absorbing sunlight heating surface to 58.1°C... also, temperature differences enable thermoelectric generators"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101722 "incorporation of just one extra silver atom, guided by ligand design, can drastically boost performance... additional silver atom in silver 79 nanoclusters enhanced radiative decay rates from symmetry reduction... also made the cluster more rigid suppressing non-radiative decay pathways that typically diminish luminescence efficiency... opens pathway to rationally engineer efficient light-emitting nanoclusters through atomic-level structural modifications.,, LEDs, bioimaging, catalysis, optoelectronics, sensing"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-fabric-patch-static-electricity-chat.html "turns clothing into a kind of voice-activated microphone... sensors often bulky, rigid, uncomfortable, struggle to hear soft/ normal speaking voices, overcome with triboelectricity... moving makes layers rub together creating tiny electrostatic charge which vibrates slightly as you speak, generating 21 volt electrical signal representing your voice, boosted by embedded flower-shaped nanoparticles capturing charge/ preventing dissipation... signal sent wirelessly to smartphone/ computer hosting deep learning model"

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-driven-reaction-advanced-hybrid-nanomaterial.html "Light-driven reaction, mainly involving singlet molecular oxygen, leads to hybrid nanomaterial generation/ tetroxide decomposition... light rather than heat driven chemical reactions more efficient... energy moves from plasmonic metal nanoparticles to semiconductor or molecule without need for physical contact... resonant energy transfer from gold nanorod to synthetic blue dye molecule converts light energy into different forms until it becomes part of hybrid polymer... energy-efficient chemical reactions" Related: Efficient PET-RAFT polymerization achieved by using low-toxicity shortwave infrared CuInSe₂/CuInS₂ quantum dots https://phys.org/news/2025-10-efficient-pet-raft-polymerization-toxicity.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-super-thin-semiconductor-thermal-stability.html "high-speed, high-frequency, low-cost, low-temperature, large-area, chip-compatible processing with high carrier mobility, but thermal conductivity inherently low... overcome using high-thermal-conductivity silicon carbide substrate for power amplification above 10 GHz RF, also in DC current... eliminates self-heating even under 3V/ 125°C... future: thin-channel materials for back-end-of-line-compatible electronics, enabling scalable/ energy-efficient RF integration... high-speed: RF power amplifiers, data communications"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101411 "switching between different topologies that govern wave direction to find magic angle focusing/ guiding sound vibration spread for faster, more efficient signal processing... greater broadband signal control across wide range of frequencies... enables quickly adjusted wave behavior, improving information transmission... facilitates the design of systems with greater resistance to glitches due to fabrication imperfections... sensing, communication, signal processing, ultrasound, microfluidics, chip-scale devices"

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-atomic-interactions-ultracold-gas-button.html "atoms' attraction/ repulsion, resonances, scattering behavior controllable over wide range by manipulating magnetic field oscillation's strength/ frequency using external magnet... this wide range control goes beyond using Feshbach scattering resonances where quantum mechanical systems' interaction was fixed at single value... quantum gases achieving previously unattainable states, dynamically generating bound states... manipulation analogous to using push button controls"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100993 "levitation isolates rotors' torque/ angular momentum to more accurately measure gravity, gas pressure, momentum, linear acceleration... diamagnetically levitating rotor: 1 cm graphite disk floating above 3 round magnets stacked... eddy currents forming inside material resists motion a bit like frictional drag, hindering measurements, overcome with plate design experiencing only slight eddy-current damping inside silica-coated graphite grains but no damping in rotor... cooling/ slowing rotation makes motion quantum"

https://bioengineer.org/high-performance-microchannels-for-electronic-cooling-solutions/ "microchannel cooling boosts longevity/ performance... coolant channel (tapered manifold) top layer directs water down to microjet layer directing coolant down to sawtoothed sidewall microchannels maximizing surface area contact between coolant/ heated surfaces... low thermal resistance manages elevated temperatures without overheating/ failure, low 0.9 W/ cm−2 pumping power need minimizes cooling system component wear... MEMS fabrication on silicon substrate... telecommunications, AI, renewable energy"

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-multimode-quantum-entanglement-dissipation.html "overcomes environmental noise, transforming dissipation into resource generating specific squeezed entangled states through precise laser control of trapped ion chain, from initial thermal states, achieving >84% fidelity... dissipative spin/ vibrational mode coupling engineering, enabling programmable control over specific dissipation processes... entangled target quantum state system's sole steady state, driving other states to spontaneously evolve toward it, exhibiting autonomous stabilization... multi-parameter estimation"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101318 "electron gas generation by illuminating oxide layered material, when switched off gas disappears... much faster, more energy-efficient, simpler operation... eliminates up to third of chip's electrical contacts saving around billion electrical contacts on computer processor alone... also, ultra-sensitive optical detectors where for same electrical voltage light boosts current produced up to 100,000X stronger than in dark... these gases occur naturally in certain semiconductor materials... electronics, spintronics, quantum computing"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100960 "magnetization insulator reversal achieving spin-orbit torque of microscopic magnets atop 3 nm thick platinum film on top of thulium iron garnet, by applying current (not magnetism)... cheaper, existing on-axis magnetron sputtering mass production method, where atoms are knocked-out of film, then deposited on substrate layer by layer... 0.7 x 1011 A/m2 data writing efficiency comparable to conventional methods... AI”

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101394 "full spectrum including difficult to produce yellows/ greens... low 11.5 (as low as 8) V... built QLED on top of indium tin oxide glass substrate, depositing: electrically conductive polymer layers (each 10s of nm thick), quantum dot mixture, metal oxide particles, and aluminum or silver top layer... final white QLED wallpaper-like thickness... sleep and eye health: more red/ less blue... >92% on color rendering index... 80% of QLED devices using various conductive materials exceeded brightness target for phone/ computer screens"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101495 "states switchable by magnetic or electric fields vulnerable to external influences/ degrade over time... overcome using ferroaxial rubidium iron dimolybdate hosting vortices of electric dipoles positionable in opposite directions without creating net magnetization/ electric polarization, made easier to control using circularly polarized THz pulses for switching... adjusting circularly polarized light's helicity (twist) pulses selectively stabilizes clockwise or anti-clockwise rotational arrangement of the electric dipoles”

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101542 "perform as well as copper foils which constitute nearly 15% of battery weight, but are 3 to 4X thinner/ about 10X lighter... translates chemical energy into electrical current... MXenes: exceptional electrical conductivity, excellent flexibility, high mechanical strength, electrochemically stable in acidic/ corrosive electrolytes, dispersible in water enabling easy processing... also for use in lightweight batteries for drones or other flying vehicles"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-scientists-world-chip-combines-2d.html "only simple chips could be constructed with 2D materials like graphene, and wasn't easy connecting to traditional processors, overcome with full-featured 2D silicon-based hybrid flash memory chip enabled by ATOM2CHIP technology... grows memory material only a few atoms thick directly onto a standard silicon chip... new type of packaging to protect fragile 2D materials from stress, heat and static electricity... tested running at 5 MHz... faster, handles complex operations"

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-individual-electrons-easing-cooling-limits.html "EeroQ quantum computing company pioneering electron-on-helium technology... this world-first demonstration achieved using on-chip superconducting microwave circuit with superfluid helium filled microchannel... enables larger/ more practical quantum processors... electrons on helium can provide exceptionally pure/ long-lived qubits"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100863 "group IV alloy semiconductors deliver beyond what silicon/ germanium alone can... compatible with existing silicon-based platforms... low in-plane heavy hole effective mass, large g-factor, anisotropy... low-power spintronics, qubits exhibiting long coherence times, thermoelectrics, on-chip lasers/ photonics, 5G/6G, AI"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1101185 "analyzing matter at quantum scale, where tiny particles interact in more than trillion configurations at once, often rely on supercomputers/ AI... overcome using truncated Wigner approximation... practical, user-friendly template allows usable results in hours... lower computational cost... keeps just enough quantum behavior to stay accurate/ discarding details that have little effect on outcome... no need to re-derive math from scratch each time applying method to new quantum problem, learn method in 1 day, proficient in 3"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251007081833.htm "stream of single photons carry quantum information for quantum technologies, but much of this light is lost in all directions... overcome by producing this light stream by placing, within a few billionths of a meter, nanodiamonds containing defects (nitrogen-vacancy centers) exactly at the center of hybrid nanoantennas that are built from layers of metal and dielectric materials in precise bullseye pattern, guiding light in well-defined direction instead of letting it scatter... faster, more reliable, chip-based quantum networks"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251007081829.htm "enabled by quantum geometry/ spontaneous symmetry breaking... in quantum metals quantum effects normally only relevant at atomic scales become powerful enough to control macroscopic electrical properties... kagome metals cooled to -190°C inherently strongly amplify quantum effect where electrons form circulating currents creating wave-like patterns throughout material... electronic devices controlled by simple magnets: magnetic memory devices, ultra-sensitive sensors"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-hybrid-boosts-energy-harvesting-motion.html "hybrid: microstructured barium titanate embedded into a poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) and poly(ethylene oxide) polymer matrix film interface... flexible, lightweight, self-sufficient, sustainable, significantly improves triboelectric nano -generator/ -sensor efficiency... generates up to 18 volts from smart infrastructure/ simple mechanical motions such as walking, wrist bending, surface tapping... wearable electronics, health monitoring systems, low-voltage devices"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100979 "analog high-frequency RF/ microwave processors, including power-divider layer... not limited by transistor switching, digital processor clock speed, heat generation, energy efficiency... integrates device-level physics with system-level applications... unlike quantum systems which have scalability/ stability issues, this technology is feasible now... scalable real-time: radar, wireless networks, advanced communications, sensors, space technologies"

https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/about/news/powerful-and-precise-multi-color-lasers-now-fit-single-chip "microcomb source spectrally separates comb lines... enables sending dozens of clean, high-power data stream channels simultaneously... no large/ expensive lasers/ amplifiers... locking mechanism purifies powerful but noisy multimode laser diode, relying on silicon photonics to reshape/ clean up laser’s output, enabling high coherence... wavelength-division multiplexing: dozens of beams in parallel through same fiber... portable sensors, ultra-precise optical clocks, compact quantum devices, LiDAR, data centers" Related: Programmable optical chip merges photons to change color https://phys.org/news/2025-10-programmable-optical-chip-merges-photons.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100927 "flatbands span entire nonlocal metasurface k-space selectively controlling for linearly/ circularly polarized light, extending coupled-resonator optical waveguide concept to metasurfaces... collective optics trap light producing sharper resonances/ stronger interactions with matter... tuned lateral coupling slows light to near 0 group velocity, boosting light–matter interactions with consistent resonance across different incidence angles... nonlinear quantum optics, advanced sensing, communications, compact flat-optics, sensing"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100847 "simpler/ more powerful nonlinear light routing not requiring switches, external control, digital addressing... 2-step process: expansion optical analogue, then thermal equilibrium, enabling light to find correct path naturally by following thermodynamic principles: expansion, compression, phase transitions... control of light and other electromagnetic signals”

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100921 "Poincaré sphere geometrics created/ manipulated nano-scale topological entities in soliton (skyrmion/ antiskyrmion, vortex) ferroelectric ultrathin films by tailoring laser's twist/ phase structure... laser beams ranging from Laguerre-Gaussian to Hermite-Gaussian modes imprint rich patterns onto ferroelectric films' polarization landscape... handedness control within trillionths of second... ultrafast, robust, smooth, entirely optical, unlike previous methods that often required complex electrical or mechanical manipulation"

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-method-enables-ws8322-epitaxy-growth.html "synthesized monolayer tungsten disulfide lateral homojunctions via in situ hexagonal domain band structure manipulation enabling controllable direct chemical vapor deposition growth... exhibits distinct field-effect characteristics while maintaining atomic lattice matching and customized band alignment at interfaces... logic inverters based on these structures demonstrated rail-to-rail operation with a peak voltage gain of 12, dynamic delay of ~135 μs, and ultralow power consumption of 1.3 nW"

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/stretchable-light-emitting-material-photon-based-devices "fragility/ low light yield overcome: nafion reinforces fragile 2D layer/ heals surface defects achieving orders magnitude greater light-emitting efficiency... stacked alternating 2D molybdenum sulfide/ nafion layers... preserves the ideal behavior of the 2D layer, even in thick, flexible membranes... no longer fragile material was then deployed in large-area membranes that were markedly brighter and remained stable in air, in water and when stretched... compact, flexible stretchable displays in computer chips/ lasers"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1097886 "new methods/ materials for making... irradiate/ imprint materials quickly/ precisely using higher-powered lasers does not allow radiation-sensitive resist coating to work on silicon wafer with <10 nm patterns... overcome using imidazole coating: new class of resist zinc-organics allowing such imprints... adjusting UV frequency/ intensity, metal, imidazole changes light absorption efficiency... at least 10 different metals, hundreds of organics... commercial within 10 years”

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-method-faraday-rotation-polymers.html "controlling Faraday rotation, where optically inactive substances exhibit optical rotation when linearly polarized light passes parallel to magnetic field... in conductive polymers (polarons), formed during doping via low voltage electrochemical oxidation... influences optical, magnetic properties... magnetic field sensors and optical communication devices"

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-rechargeable-powers-nanoscale-molecular-machines.html "room temperature circuits spend heat energy stored in kinetic traps, like molecular springs, recharged with heat pulse... reusability through kinetic traps isn't limited to heat, but for any energy source where can break weak bonds between molecules letting them fall back into their traps, such as light, salt, acid gradients... long term neural network and logic circuit tasks like those of living systems... smart medicines, cargo sorting, self-hydrating contact lenses, self-repairing strain cracks, molecular computers"

https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2025/9/25/shining-light-dark-valleytronics "2 types: momentum-dark/ spin-dark, mismatch prevents immediate recombination: enables more useful timescale/ making more isolated from environmental interactions... use either left- or right-circularly polarized light to selectively populate bright exciton in specific valley, then rapidly turning into numerous dark excitons potentially preserving valley information... classical/ quantum information technologies"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100720 "1D electron quantum state avoids thermalization, enabling Carnot/ Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency limits to be exceeded... when heat introduced, system holds onto non-thermal, high-energy state rather than spreading energy out evenly... injected waste heat from quantum point contact transistor into Tomonaga- Luttinger liquid, non-thermal heat transported several µm to quantum-dot heat engine, producing higher conversion efficiency... more sustainable/ efficient low-power: electronics, quantum computers"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100721 "exhibits direct bandgap/ emits light from orange to blue at room temperature, composition can be chemically tuned to switch between n-type/ p-type conduction over 9 orders magnitude... undoped produces strong orange emission, magnesium in place of zinc shifts to green or blue depending on amount of substitution... switches to n-type (by introducing small amount titanium at Sc3+ site) or p-type (by slightly reducing zinc content) conduction... pn homojunction devices” Related: A trick of light: UC Irvine researchers turn silicon into direct bandgap semiconductor https://news.uci.edu/2024/10/31/a-trick-of-light-uc-irvine-researchers-turn-silicon-into-direct-bandgap-semiconductor/

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ultra-thin-sodium-alternative-gold.html "overcomes sodium instability in presence of air/ moisture... combines thermally- assisted spin coating with phase-shift photolithography, using heat/ light to craft nanoscopic surface patterns trapping/ guiding light... sodium's electrons responded in ways that differ from traditional metals, suggesting it could offer new advantages for light-based technologies like photocatalysis, sensing, energy conversion, solar panels, medical devices,"