Materials Science News
May 19, 2024
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May 16, 2024 — Researchers have investigated how spiders listen to their environments through webs and found that the webs match the acoustic particle velocity for a wide range of sound frequencies. Playing sound ranging from 1 Hz to 50 kHz for the spiders and ...
May 17, 2024 — Two-dimensional materials such as graphene promise to form the basis of incredibly small and fast technologies, but this requires a detailed understanding of their electronic properties. New research demonstrates that fast electronic processes can ...
May 16, 2024 — A team of chemists has achieved a significant breakthrough in the field of chemical synthesis, developing a novel method for manipulating carbon-hydrogen bonds. This groundbreaking discovery provides new insights into the molecular interactions of ...
May 14, 2024 — Polystyrene is made from styrene building blocks and is the most widely used plastic in terms of volume, for example in packaging. Unlike PET, which can now be produced and recycled using biotechnological methods, the production of polystyrene has ...
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May 16, 2024 — Researchers have found that persimmon tannin, known for its antioxidant properties, improves the growth of yeast in the presence of ...
May 14, 2024 — Using interference between two lasers, a research group has created an 'optical conveyor belt' that can move polaritons -- a type of light-matter hybrid particle -- in semiconductor-based ...
May 13, 2024 — Scientists have made a significant advance in laser plasma acceleration. By employing an innovative method, a research team managed to substantially exceed the previous record for proton ...
May 17, 2024 — Using DNA origami, researchers have built a diamond lattice with a periodicity of hundreds of nanometers -- a new approach for manufacturing semiconductors for visible ...
May 16, 2024 — Thermoelectric materials could play an important role in the clean energy transition, as they can produce electricity from sources of heat that would ...
May 16, 2024 — Researchers used generative AI to develop a physics-informed technique to classify phase transitions in materials or physical systems that is much more efficient than existing machine-learning ...
May 16, 2024 — Perovskite hydrides are promising materials for various emerging energy technologies, but measuring their intrinsic hydride-ion conductivity is difficult. In a recent study, researchers address this ...
May 16, 2024 — Vanilla, the most widely used flavoring compound in confectionaries and cosmetics, gets its sweet flavor and aroma from the chemical compound -- 'vanillin'. However, the large-scale production of ...
May 15, 2024 — Semiconductors are the foundation of all modern electronics. Now, researchers have developed a new method where organic semiconductors can become more conductive with the help of air as a dopant. The ...
May 15, 2024 — Researchers conducted a comprehensive analysis on the carbon footprint of constructing a wooden house in Japan. The team found that the estimated carbon footprint of a house in Japan is 38 tons of ...
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May 15, 2024 — Researchers are developing battery technologies to fight climate change in two ways, by expanding the use of renewable energy and capturing airborne carbon dioxide. Researchers recently created and ...
May 15, 2024 — Fire ants form rafts to survive flooding, but how do those bonds work? And what can we learn from them? A professor is researching those questions to expand our knowledge of materials ...
May 15, 2024 — Thirteen years after the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP), a breakthrough in analysis has permitted a world first: direct imaging of radioactive cesium (Cs) atoms ...
May 15, 2024 — New modelling reveals that low-carbon concrete can recycle double the amount of coal ash compared to current standards, halve the amount of cement required and perform exceptionally well over ...
May 15, 2024 — Research could pave the way for a prosthetic hand and robot to be able to feel touch like a human hand. The technology could also be used to help restore lost functionality to patients after a ...
May 15, 2024 — Researchers have leveraged deep learning techniques to enhance the image quality of a metalens camera. The new approach uses artificial intelligence to turn low-quality images into high-quality ones, ...
May 15, 2024 — A new type of recyclable resin, made from biosourced materials, has been designed for use in 3D printing ...
May 15, 2024 — Researchers who contributed to the development of record-breaking solar cells a few years ago, expanded their invention. The self-assembled monolayers can now be applied not only in inverted but also ...
May 15, 2024 — Instead of burning fossil fuels to smelt steel and cook cement, researchers in Switzerland want to use heat from the sun. The proof-of-concept study uses synthetic quartz to trap solar energy at ...
May 14, 2024 — A new system could enable simple, low-cost detectors for monitoring water for lead contamination, and potentially other heavy metals as ...
May 14, 2024 — A prototype of a more durable material increases the biodegradability of food packaging, partially replacing its bioplastic with cellulose fibers extracted from the branches and leaves of the avocado ...
May 14, 2024 — Japanese washi paper is renowned for its aesthetic beauty and its wide-array of usages. Now, a group of researchers have made a green composite material from washi which boasts a 60% increase in ...
May 14, 2024 — A new device that can process information using a small amount of light could enable energy-efficient and secure ...
May 14, 2024 — A new technique for 3D printing medication has enabled the printing of multiple drugs in a single tablet, paving the way for personalised pills that can deliver timed ...
May 14, 2024 — A team of scientists has developed a novel technique to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) from treated flue gas directly into high-value chemicals and fuels. This innovation sidesteps the conventional ...
May 13, 2024 — A research team has demonstrated that a simple stack of thermoelectric and magnetic material layers can exhibit a substantially larger transverse thermoelectric effect -- energy conversion between ...
May 13, 2024 — Electroretinography (ERG), which involves measuring electric potential in the retina, is a powerful tool for diagnosing and studying ocular diseases. However, multi-electrode systems for ERG are ...
May 13, 2024 — Collaborative efforts decode the mechanism behind stabilizing cathode doping in electric vehicle ...
May 9, 2024 — A research team has demonstrated that an iron-based amorphous alloy, widely used as a soft magnetic material in transformers and motors, can be transformed into a 'transverse' ...
May 9, 2024 — What if your earbuds could do everything your smartphone can, but better? A new class of synthetic materials could allow for smaller devices that use less ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- Carbon-Capture Batteries Developed to Store Renewable Energy, Help Climate
- What Fire Ants Can Teach Us About Making Better, Self-Healing Materials
- Much More Than a World First Image of Radioactive Cesium Atoms
- Green Concrete Recycling Twice the Coal Ash Is Built to Last
- Robots' And Prosthetic Hands' Sense of Touch Could Be as Fast as Humans
- Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Boost Image Quality of Metalens Camera
- Bio-Based Resins Could Offer Recyclable Future for 3D Printing
- Promising New Development in Solar Cell Technology
- Scientists Generate Heat Over 1,000 Degrees Celsius With Solar Power Instead of Fossil Fuel
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
- Scientists Develop an Affordable Sensor for Lead Contamination
- Avocado Pruning Residues Used to Produce More Sustainable Food Packaging
- Creating a Green Composite Material from Japanese Washi Paper
- Speedy, Secure, Sustainable -- That's the Future of Telecom
- An Easy Pill to Swallow -- New 3D Printing Research Paves Way for Personalized Medication
- Transforming Waste Carbon Dioxide Into High-Value Chemicals With a Cost Reduction of About 30%
Monday, May 13, 2024
- Exceptionally Large Transverse Thermoelectric Effect Produced by Combining Thermoelectric and Magnetic Materials
- Eye Care: Taking Electroretinography to the Next Level With a Soft Multi-Electrode System
- Hide and Seek Between Atoms: Find the Dopant
Thursday, May 9, 2024
- Transforming Common Soft Magnets Into a Next-Generation Thermoelectric Conversion Materials by 3 Minutes Heat Treatment
- Good Vibrations: New Tech May Lead to Smaller, More Powerful Wireless Devices
- New 'forever Chemical' Cleanup Strategy Discovered
- Manganese Sprinkled With Iridium: A Quantum Leap in Green Hydrogen Production
- 2D All-Organic Perovskites: Potential Use in 2D Electronics
- Discover Optimal Conditions for Mass Production of Ultraviolet Holograms
- Getting Dirty to Clean Up the Chemical Industry's Environmental Impact
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
- Disorder Improves Battery Life
- Swarms of Miniature Robots Clean Up Microplastics and Microbes, Simultaneously
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- Why Is Breaking Down Plant Material for Biofuels So Slow?
- This Sound-Suppressing Silk Can Create Quiet Spaces
- 'Better Than Graphene' Material Development May Improve Implantable Technology
- Seeking Medical Insights in the Physics of Mucus
- Bio-Inspired Materials' Potential for Efficient Mass Transfer Boosted by a New Twist on a Century-Old Theory
- Researchers 'unzip' 2D Materials With Lasers
- Low-Energy Process for High-Performance Solar Cells
- Tiny Displacements, Giant Changes in Optical Properties
Monday, May 6, 2024
- Caterbot? Robatapillar? It Crawls With Ease Through Loops and Bends
- The Clues for Cleaner Water
- Experiment Opens Door for Millions of Qubits on One Chip
- High-Pressure Spectroscopy: Why 3,000 Bars Are Needed to Take a Comprehensive Look at a Protein
Friday, May 3, 2024
- When Injecting Pure Spin Into Chiral Materials, Direction Matters
- Tweaking Isotopes Sheds Light on Promising Approach to Engineer Semiconductors
- Stretchable E-Skin Could Give Robots Human-Level Touch Sensitivity
- Towards Transparent and Antimicrobial Surfaces for Touch Displays
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- New Eco-Friendly Lubricant Additives Protect Turbine Equipment, Waterways
- Physicists Arrange Atoms in Extremely Close Proximity
- Path to Easier Recycling of Solar Modules
- Sugar-Based Catalyst Upcycles Carbon Dioxide
- Significant New Discovery in Teleportation Research -- Noise Can Improve the Quality of Quantum Teleportation
- New Approach in the Synthesis of Complex Natural Substances
- Toxic Chemicals Can Be Detected With New AI Method
- Cost-Effective, High-Capacity, and Cyclable Lithium-Ion Battery Cathodes
- New Mirror That Can Be Flexibly Shaped Improves X-Ray Microscopes
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- The Big Quantum Chill: Scientists Modify Common Lab Refrigerator to Cool Faster With Less Energy
- Researchers Unlock Potential of 2D Magnetic Devices for Future Computing
- Marriage of Synthetic Biology and 3D Printing Produces Programmable Living Materials
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
- Activity in a Room Stirs Up Nanoparticles Left Over from Consumer Sprays
- Researchers Develop an AI Model to Reduce Uncertainty in Evapotranspiration Prediction
- Scientists Solve Chemical Mystery at the Interface of Biology and Technology
- Under Examination: Buckling -- When Structures Suddenly Collapse
- Biodegradable 'living Plastic' Houses Bacterial Spores That Help It Break Down
- Innovation Promises to Prevent Power Pole-Top Fires
- New Technology Makes 3D Microscopes Easier to Use, Less Expensive to Manufacture
- Lead-Vacancy Centers in Diamond as Building Blocks for Large-Scale Quantum Networks
Monday, April 29, 2024
- Laser Imaging Could Offer Early Detection for at-Risk Artwork
- Atomic Nucleus Excited With Laser: A Breakthrough After Decades
- When Does a Conductor Not Conduct?
- Scientists Develop Strong Yet Reusable Adhesive from Smart Materials
- Physicists Show That Light Can Generate Electricity Even in Translucent Materials
- Speeding Up Spectroscopic Analysis
Friday, April 26, 2024
- From Disorder to Order: Flocking Birds and 'spinning' Particles
- Tomography-Based Digital Twins of Nd-Fe-B Magnets
- Imaging Technique Shows New Details of Peptide Structures
- New Circuit Boards Can Be Repeatedly Recycled
- More Efficient Molecular Motor Widens Potential Applications
- Professor Resolves Two Decades of Oxide Semiconductor Challenges
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Nanomaterial That Mimics Proteins Could Be Basis for New Neurodegenerative Disease Treatments
- Key to Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells
- Diamond Dust Shines Bright in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- 'Like a Nanoscopic Moon Lander': Scientists Unlock Secret of How Pyramidal Molecules Move Across Surfaces
- Freeze Casting: A Guide to Creating Hierarchically Structured Materials
- Towards Novel Promising Perovskite-Type Ferroelectric Materials: High-Pressure Synthesis of Rubidium Niobate
- Discovering Exceptional Oxide Ion Conductivity at Lower Temperatures
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Scientists Tune the Entanglement Structure in an Array of Qubits
- How Light Can Vaporize Water Without the Need for Heat
- Rubber-Like Stretchable Energy Storage Device Fabricated With Laser Precision
- Pattern Formation in the Nano-Cosmos
- This Salt Battery Harvests Osmotic Energy Where the River Meets the Sea
- Researchers Show It's Possible to Teach Old Magnetic Cilia New Tricks
- High-Resolution Lidar Sees Birth Zone of Cloud Droplets
- A Chemical Mystery Solved -- The Reaction Explaining Large Carbon Sinks
- Making Diamonds at Ambient Pressure
- A Simple 'twist' Improves the Engine of Clean Fuel Generation
- Condensed Matter Physics: Novel One-Dimensional Superconductor
- A Novel Universal Light-Based Technique to Control Valley Polarization in Bulk Materials
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Critical Minerals Recovery from Electronic Waste
- Researchers Create Artificial Cells That Act Like Living Cells
- Laser-Treated Cork Absorbs Oil for Carbon-Neutral Ocean Cleanup
- Manipulating the Geometry of 'electron Universe' In Magnets
- Unlocking Spin Current Secrets: A New Milestone in Spintronics
- Perfecting the View on a Crystal's Imperfection