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Showing posts with label nanoscience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nanoscience. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Nanoscale machines in nature

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Part two of the Biology brief in The Economist is  Cells and how to run them: All life is made of cells, and cells depend on membranes A few...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

The challenge of non-equilibrium thermodynamics

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This week I am in Telluride at the bi-annual workshop on Condensed Phase Dynamics.  I really enjoyed the talks today. A common topic was tha...
Monday, August 24, 2015

Seeking definitive experimental signatures of a Weyl semimetal

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Weyl and Dirac semimetals are getting quite a bit of attention. Part of this interest is because of the possible solid state realisation of ...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Emergent length scales in quantum matter

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Only last week I realised that an important and profound property of emergent quantum matter is the emergence of new length scales. These ca...
Friday, November 1, 2013

Quantum of thermal conductance

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Here are a couple of things I find surprising about the electronic transport properties of materials. 1. One cannot simply have materials,...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Is meso the new nano?

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There is an interesting article Emergent Physics the Mesoscale: Report from the special Kavli session at the 2012 APS March meeting by Sam ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Nanotechnology: from the fourth century A.D. to the Middle ages

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Today there was an interesting Quantum science seminar by  Ulrik L. Andersen (Technical University of Denmark) Quantum Plasmonics: Controlle...