4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (378+ words) New work suggests that building nontrivial topologies around optical vortices could be a better strategy than engineering delicate polarisation patterns across an entire beam Structured light is light with a designed spatial pattern. It can be shaped into standard topological…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (369+ words) Cling film helps stamp two-dimensional materials onto patterned surfaces Physics World - Enter password Show password Password field is now showing your password - Access more than 20 years of online content - Manage which e-mail newsletters you want to receive - Read about the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (220+ words) Isabelle Dumé is a contributing editor to Physics World. She has more than 10 years of experience in science writing and editing in condensed-matter physics relating to technology/nanotechnology/biotechnology, astronomy and astrophysics, energy and the environment, biology and medicine. She…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (223+ words) Lorna Brigham is a Scientific Editor at IOP Publishing. She holds a Master’s degree in Chemistry and completed her PhD at the University of Sussex, where she specialised in photovoltaic materials. Lorna joined the Reports on Progress in Physics journal…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (156+ words) Water droplets sliding across solid surfaces can acquire electric potentials of thousands of volts and thereby corrode non-conductive surfaces on metals when they discharge. That is the conclusion of researchers in Germany who say that the poorly-understood phenomenon warrants further…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (172+ words) A fundamental physics discovery could help reduce energy losses in future wireless power technologies Wireless power transfer research tends to focus on engineering solutions such as improved coil designs, impedance matching and frequency tuning. However, in this work, the researchers…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (453+ words) Isabelle Dumé is a contributing editor to Physics World. She has more than 10 years of experience in science writing and editing in condensed-matter physics relating to technology/nanotechnology/biotechnology, astronomy and astrophysics, energy and the environment, biology and medicine. She…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (189+ words) Advances in molecularly imprinted polymers for electrochemical sensing Physics World - Enter password Show password Password field is now showing your password - Access more than 20 years of online content - Manage which e-mail newsletters you want to receive - Read about the big…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (400+ words) Isabelle Dumé is a contributing editor to Physics World. She has more than 10 years of experience in science writing and editing in condensed-matter physics relating to technology/nanotechnology/biotechnology, astronomy and astrophysics, energy and the environment, biology and medicine. She…...