Successful Morphing of Inorganic Perovskites Without Damaging their Functional Properties

inorganic perovskites
Applying morphed perovskites to construct an innovative photodetector. (Photo credits: © Dr Li Xiaocui / City University of Hong Kong)

A research team co-led by scholars from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has successfully morphed all-inorganic perovskites at room temperature without compromising their functional properties. Their findings demonstrate the potential of this class of semiconductors for manufacturing next-generation deformable electronics and energy systems in the future.

All-inorganic lead halide perovskites are becoming increasingly important semiconducting materials in energy conversion and optoelectronics because of their outstanding performance and enhanced environmental stability.

“However, unlike metal materials or polymers, inorganic semiconductors ar...

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Hubble finds Bizarre Explosion in Unexpected Place

A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger—thanks to the eagle-eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The phenomenon, called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT), flashed onto the scene where it wasn't expected to be found, far away from any host galaxy. Only Hubble could pinpoint its location. The Hubble results suggest astronomers know even less about these objects than previously thought by ruling out some possible theories.Read More

Plot Thickens in Hunt for Ninth Planet

Plot thickens in hunt for ninth planet
An artist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), located on the outer rim of our solar system at a staggering distance of 4 billion miles from the sun. Credit: NASA

Outer reaches of solar system could harbor another planet–or evidence modifying laws of gravity. A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead be evidence within the solar system of a modified law of gravity originally developed to understand the rotation of galaxies.

Researchers Harsh Mathur, a professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University, and Katherine Brown, an associate professor of physics at Hamilton College, made the assertion after studying the effect the Milky Way galaxy would have on objects in the outer solar syst...

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New Alzheimer’s Disease Pathways identified

New Alzheimer's disease pathways identified
Path model of main findings. This path model summarizes the main-effect mediation model. Circles indicate principal components or latent variables, rectangles represent observed variables. Arrows either indicate PC loadings or structural regression paths. Thicker lines correspond to stronger loadings, solid structural paths are genome-wide significant (p < 5 × 10−8), and dashed lines are suggestive (p < 0.008). Coefficients indicate either the effect of one effect allele on a biomarker PC in SD, or the effect of one SD higher biomarker PC score on latent AD in SD. Note: all paths are adjusted for assessment age, sex, genetic ancestry, and study but are omitted from figure. Credit: Genome Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.1186/s13073-023-01233-z

Dementia, which includes Alzheimer’...

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