Despite the huge technological interest in boron nitride (BN), understanding the relative stability of its different structural phases remains a challenge owing to conflicting results from experiments ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have shown for the first time that ferroelectricity ...

The development and understanding of efficient catalysts based on isolated metal centers stabilized on suitable hosts is a challenging task that has sparked the imagination of researchers worldwide.

A new moire quantum well built from twisted boron nitride layers emits deep-ultraviolet light 20 times more efficiently than ...

Quantum computers have the potential to break common cryptography techniques, search huge datasets and simulate quantum systems in a fraction of the time it would take today’s computers. But before ...

Precisely placed defects from a helium ion beam enable ferroelectric switching in aluminum nitride with 40% less energy, ...

Imagine a thin film, just nanometers thick, that could store gigabytes of data—enough for movies, video games, and videos. This is the exciting potential of ferroelectric materials for memory storage.

Researchers have achieved a major leap in tungsten nitride supercapacitor performance by engineering a flower-like nanorod precursor that transforms into a porous cubic network during nitridation.

Ishikawa, Japan-- Boron nitride (BN) is a versatile material with applications in a variety of engineering and scientific fields. This is largely due to an interesting property of BN called ...