A military helicopter is pictured spreading stuff supposed to reduce the contamination of the air full of radioactive elements above the Chernobyl nuclear plant, a few days after its No. 4 reactor s blast, the world s worst nuclear accident of the 20th century. Photo credit: STF/AFP/Getty Images
Scientists say the revealing findings - which are the most “detailed results” into the chemical makeup of the radioactive materials inside the plant’s melted core to date - could “pave the way” to safely remove hazardous waste from the site and help prevent future nuclear disasters.
Dr Claire Corkhill, the project lead, from the University of Sheffield, stressed the urgency to the research as until now only a very limited number of samples have been analysed by scientists round the world. This is because the most dangerous materials that remain inside Chernobyl are so hazardous, hampering efforts to safely contain or remove the materials from the disaster zone.
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Twelve University of Cambridge researchers have won advanced grants from the European Research Council (ERC), Europe’s premier research funding body. Cambridge has the most grant winners of any UK institution, and the second-most winners overall. Their work is set to provide new insights into many subjects, such as how to deal with vast scales of data in a statistically robust way, the development of energy-efficient materials for a zero-carbon world, and the development of new treatments for degenerative disease and cancer.
Two hundred and nine senior scientists from across Europe were awarded grants in today’s announcement, representing a total of €507 million in research funding. The UK has 51 grantees in this year’s funding round, the most of any ERC participating country.
SMART Breakthrough in Materials Discovery Enables ‘Twistronics’ for Bulk Systems
Written by AZoNanoApr 22 2021
Researchers from the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore together with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new way to control light emission from materials.
SMART researchers show the phenomena related to the formation of moiré superlattices observed in monolayer-based two-dimensional systems can be translated to tune optical properties of three-dimensional, bulk-like hexagonal boron nitride, even at room temperature. Photo Credit: Nano Letters Cover, Volume 21, Issue 7
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The need for widening the pool of professors, tenured faculty, and university fellows has grown over the years. As schools prepare for the Fall term, they re seeking candidates that will help shape the future of their programs and improve the institution s architectural pedagogy.
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SMART breakthrough in materials discovery enables twistronics for bulk systems
The findings allow manipulation of materials for the first time by stacking films at a twist angle, allowing a new way to control light emitting from materials
Recent discoveries focused on manipulation of atomically-thin 2D materials, while the new breakthrough can be used to stack technologically-relevant 3D materials at a twist angle
Method allows continuous, systematic control of optical emission intensity and energy, and can produce ultraviolet emissions at room temperature for bulk systems
The discovery can be significant for applications in medicine, environmental or information technologies.
Researchers from the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore together with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and National University of Singap