Climbing these steps of the materials discovery ladder requires embracing a vast body of experiential knowledge accumulated over years of first-hand experimental and theoretical learning.

Climbing these steps of the materials discovery ladder requires embracing a vast body of experiential knowledge accumulated over years of first-hand experimental and theoretical learning.
An interplay between two realms is the subject of the Focussed Session: Geometry- and Topology-Controlled Nanoarchitectures at the Joint Meeting of DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) and EPS (European Physical Society) Condensed Matter Divisions on March 13, 2018 at the TU Berlin.
Physicists have developed a thin nanomaterial with superconducting properties. Below -200°C these materials conduct electricity without loss, levitate magnets and can screen magnetic fields.
With help of in situ reflection high-energy electron diffraction patterns, a method to grow high quality MgB2 films on whole Si wafers by adopting a self-limiting growth process is demonstrated.
Superconductivity has been discovered in highly compressed hydrogen sulphide at an amazing 203 degrees kelvin.
A team of researchers from Australia and China, have developed a family of superconducting liquid metals of GaInSn-alloys and their nanodroplets.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with one half to David J. Thouless and the other half to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
An outlook to the forthcoming MRS Spring Meeting, to be held from April 6-10, 2015 for the last time in San Francisco, California.
A multinational team lead by the University of Oxford has discovered a novel topological insulator in the form of Sb-doped Bi2Se3 nanowires.
Yang Zou and co-workers have found evidence for superconductivity in YFe2Ge2 with an unusual power-law temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity.