In the movie Bruce Almighty, the protagonist named Bruce, met God by chance and was offered almighty powers.
The so-called permanent magnets, the kind discovered on refrigerators all over the place, exist since their constituent atoms act as miniature magnets.
At the University of Southampton, a research group has displayed the fact that light could be moved within a distance that is smaller than its wavelength—a level of unparalleled accuracy.
When optical beams comprising photons tend to travel via fibers, they lead to vibrations that produce acoustic waves, consisting of phonons.
A recent study led by Javier Abajo from the Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (ICFO) and Qing Dai from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) demonstrated a gate-tunable nanoscale negative refraction of polaritons in the mid-infrared range through a van der Waals heterostructure of graphene and molybdenum trioxide.
Considerable progress for drug discovery, industrial processes, and optoelectronics could be yielded by engineering novel molecules and materials with specific properties.
Resonant optical phenomena in dielectrics and metals have boundless applications in numerous fields. The nanoscale confinement enables unmatched control of light–matter interaction at interfaces and surfaces, exploiting and governing the light flow.
A new, highly uncommon, structured-light family of 3D topological solitons, called the photonic hopfions have been reported by scientists. Here, the topological numbers and topological textures could be tuned in a free and independent manner.
Radiative heat transfer is a universal physical phenomenon in the universe. Any object having a temperature over absolute zero tends to exchange thermal energy with the surroundings.
In an article published in the journal Polymers, researchers assessed the effect of carbon nanotube (CNT)-modified surfaces in cyanobacterial biofilm development over a long-term assay under controlled hydrodynamic conditions.