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Chennai-based WS Industries Ltd. (WSIL), which had gone into oblivion, said it is betting on its huge land bank in and around Chennai to develop IT and logistics parks and electronics factories to revive fortunes.The six-decade-old…

In 2019, an international research team headed by materials chemist Anna Isaeva, at that time a junior professor at ct.qmat (Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter), caused a stir by fabricating the world's first antiferromagnetic…

A new way to combine two materials with special electrical properties -- a monolayer superconductor and a topological insulator -- provides the best platform to date to explore an unusual form of superconductivity called topological…

In 2004, researchers from the University of Manchester used adhesive tape to pull sheets of single carbon atoms away from graphite to make graphene -- a material that is 1000 times thinner than human hair yet stronger than steel. This…

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have discovered a way to make a versatile thermal conductor, with promise for more energy-efficient electronic devices, green buildings and space…

An intermediate layer consisting of a few atoms is helping to improve the transport of spin currents from one material to another. Until now, this process involves significant losses. A team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg…

Borophene may be done tantalizing materials scientists and start serving their ambitions, if a new approach by Rice University researchers can be turned into practice. Materials theorist Boris Yakobson of Rice's George R. Brown School of…

An intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 has been discovered with a large band gap, making it a promising material platform for fabricating ultra-low-energy electronics and observing exotic topological phenomena. Hosting both…