How twisting two-dimensional materials led to a new field of research

Researchers from Rutgers University, MIT, and UT Austin, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, have been awarded the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for pioneering ‘twistronics’, discovering that twisting two-dimensional materials like graphene unlocks novel quantum behaviors like superconductivity.

New analog memory may make smart devices even smarter

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed electro-thermo-chemical random-access memory, a technology that uses localized heating and electrical pulses to store a range of analog values instead of binary ones and zeros, making future electronics more energy efficient.

AI helps microscopes find the most informative nanoscale features

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed SimuScan, an artificial intelligence framework that uses realistic synthetic data to train AI to identify nanoscale features and autonomously target the most informative regions of a sample.