Photo by Patrick Lindenberg on Unsplash Silicon Oxide-Rich Diamond-Like Carbon: A Conformal, Ultrasmooth Thin Film Material with High Thermo-Oxidative Stability, Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2018, 1801416 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.201801416 Why should I care about this article? Growing up, my sibling and I experienced a fair amount of the start of home computers. Our first family computer was a Windows 95 that … Continue reading Improving Heat-assisted Magnetic Recording for Hard Disk Drives →

Photo by Alexej Алексей Simonenko Симоненко on Unsplash Controlled crack propagation for atomic precision handling of wafer-scale two-dimensional materials, Shim et al., Science 362, 665–670 (2018) http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/10/10/science.aat8126 Why should I care about this article2? A lot of exciting, maybe even sexy, recent scientific research involves a class of materials called 2D materials. At the heart of this is … Continue reading Separating Single Layers of Atoms →