Today's Tech News: Notable or Not?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1133828 "machine learning narrows down promising elemental combinations, pre-screens with algorithm, then calculates which materials could be superconductive... both materials gain resistance-free electrical properties from electrons forming flat bands within kagome lattice... no slow trial-and-error, instead uses high-throughput computational screening process predicting candidate structures... realizes major energy-efficiency gains for global lossless power grids and ultra-fast quantum processors" .

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" Related: Room-temperature mott insulator discovered in kagome material Nb₃Cl₈ opens a new path for strongly correlated quantum physics https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1109855

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-kagome-superlattice-method-tune-graphene.html "in situ and continuous control through gating and moiré heterostructures, of spectral weight redistribution among multiple Dirac peaks, reverting back using magnetic field... reconstructing band structures through different contributions, leading to dispersion-selective band modulation... van der Waals assembly techniques, and electron beam lithography... creating kagome-lattice pattern functioning as local gate for graphene.... control strength of artificial potential, carrier density, in graphene" Related: Researchers propose novel spin-valve mechanism using kagome quantum magnets https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1082244 Programmable DNA moiré superlattices: expanding the material design space at the nanoscale https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1091570 Evidence of a quantum spin liquid ground state in a kagome material https://phys.org/news/2025-12-evidence-quantum-liquid-ground-state...