nanoscale views

Now that we're 6 weeks into the new year, I think it's worth it to do an incomplete roundup of where we are on US federal support of...

There seems to be a huge push lately in the tech world for the idea of placing data centers in space .  This is not just coming from Musk vi...

After seeing this latest extremely good video from Veritasium , and looking back through my posts, I realized that while I've referenced...

A friend pointed out that, while I've written many posts that have to do with superconductivity , I've never really done a concept p...

The Kondo effect is a neat piece of physics, an archetype of a problem involving strong electronic correlations and entanglement, with a lo...

This is a compilation of posts related to some basic concepts of the physics of materials and nanoscale physics.  I realized the other day t...

How do crystalline materials deform?  When you try to shear or stretch a crystalline solid, in the elastic  regime the atoms just slightly r...