This video explores the fascinating reasons behind the physical properties of elements. It answers questions about why mercury is a liquid at room temperature, why gold has its distinctive yellow ...

A strong electron–hole exchange interaction (EI) in semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) gives rise to a large (up to tens of meV) splitting between optically active ('bright') and optically passive ...

Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), alongside those from the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec and Aalto University in Finland, have announced they have used artificial atoms in ...

Clusters of atoms are generally only stable enough to form superatoms when they have filled electron shells, so how can they have magnetic properties? To understand the design of magnetic superatoms, ...

The authors of the study, experimentalists led by Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and theoreticians from Russia, Denmark, Belgium and Canada, ...