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Employing state-of-the-art numerical simulations, a study led by scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has obtained the first systematic
A University of Minnesota-led team has, for the first time, engineered an atomically thin material that can absorb nearly 100% of light
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