Materials Science News
May 9, 2024
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May 9, 2024 — The global chemical industry is a major fossil fuel consumer and climate change contributor; however, new research has identified how the sector could clean up its green credentials by getting ...
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 ...
May 9, 2024 — A method has been discovered to treat water heavily contaminated with unhealthful forever chemicals, known by chemists as PFAS or poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances. It involves treating heavily contaminated water with ultraviolet (UV) light, ...
May 9, 2024 — Perovskites are among the most researched topics in materials science. Recently, a research team has solved an age-old challenge to synthesize all-organic two-dimensional perovskites, extending the field into the exciting realm of 2D materials. This ...
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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 ...
May 9, 2024 — Scientists delve into the composition of nanocomposites for ultraviolet metasurface ...
May 8, 2024 — What determines the cycle life of batteries? And, more importantly, how can we extend it? An international research team has discovered that local disorder in the oxide cathode material increases the ...
May 8, 2024 — When old food packaging, discarded children's toys and other mismanaged plastic waste break down into microplastics, they become even harder to clean ...
May 7, 2024 — Tracking individual enzymes during the breakdown of cellulose for biofuel production has revealed how several roadblocks slow this process when using plant material that might otherwise go to waste. ...
May 7, 2024 — Researchers reveal a new pathway for designing optical materials using the degree of atomic disorder. The researchers anticipate developing crystals that enable advanced infrared imaging in low light ...
May 7, 2024 — Researchers used commercially available tabletop lasers to create tiny, atomically sharp nanostructures in samples of a layered 2D material called hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN). The new ...
May 7, 2024 — Researchers developed a silk fabric, which is barely thicker than a human hair, that can suppress unwanted noise and reduce noise transmission in a large ...
May 7, 2024 — Move over, graphene. There's a new, improved two-dimensional material in the lab. Borophene, the atomically thin version of boron first synthesized ...
May 7, 2024 — Understanding how mucus changes, and what it changes in response to, can help diagnose illnesses and develop treatments. Researchers develop a system to grow mucus-producing intestinal cells and ...
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May 7, 2024 — The natural vein structure found within leaves -- which has inspired the structural design of porous materials that can maximize mass transfer -- could unlock improvements in energy storage, ...
May 7, 2024 — Finding reliable, eco-friendly power sources is crucial as our world grapples with increasing energy needs and the urgent call to combat climate change. Solar energy offers one solution, with ...
May 6, 2024 — Engineers created a catapillar-shaped robot that splits into segments and reassembles, hauls cargo, and crawls through twisting ...
May 6, 2024 — By using experimental electrochemical analyses, mass spectrometry, and computational quantum chemistry modeling, the researchers created an 'atomic-scale storyline' to explain how ozone is ...
May 6, 2024 — Researchers have achieved the first controllable interaction between two hole spin qubits in a conventional silicon transistor. The breakthrough opens up the possibility of integrating millions of ...
May 6, 2024 — Why 3,000 bars are needed to take a comprehensive look at a protein: Researchers present a new high-pressure spectroscopy method to unravel the properties of proteins' native ...
May 3, 2024 — The direction in which spin information is injected into chiral materials affects its ability to pass through them. These chiral 'gateways' could be used to design energy-efficient ...
May 3, 2024 — Scientists have demonstrated that small changes in the isotopic content of thin semiconductor materials can influence their optical and electronic properties, possibly opening the way to new and ...
May 3, 2024 — A stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a great deal of ...
May 3, 2024 — Researchers report the development of a durable and transparent antimicrobial surface containing copper nanoparticles. The nanostructured surface was obtained by dewetting ultrathin metal copper ...
May 2, 2024 — Scientists have developed lubricant additives that protect both water turbine equipment and the surrounding ...
May 2, 2024 — Physicists developed a technique to arrange atoms in much closer proximity than previously possible, down to 50 nanometers. The group plans to use the method to manipulate atoms into configurations ...
May 2, 2024 — The use of femtosecond lasers to form glass-to-glass welds for solar modules would make the panels easier to recycle, according to a proof-of-concept ...
May 2, 2024 — New catalyst is made from an inexpensive, abundant metal and table sugar. Catalyst converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into carbon monoxide, a building block for producing a variety of useful chemicals ...
May 2, 2024 — Researchers succeeded in conducting an almost perfect quantum teleportation despite the presence of noise that usually disrupts the transfer of quantum ...
May 2, 2024 — Many natural substances possess interesting characteristics, and can form the basis of new active compounds in medicine. Terpenes, for example, are a group of substances, some of which are already ...
May 2, 2024 — Researchers have developed an AI method that improves the identification of toxic chemicals -- based solely on knowledge of the molecular structure. The method can contribute to better control and ...
May 2, 2024 — Charge-recharge cycling of lithium-superrich iron oxide, a cost-effective and high-capacity cathode for new-generation lithium-ion batteries, can be greatly improved by doping with readily available ...
May 2, 2024 — Researchers have developed a unique shape-tunable mirror that can change shape to optimally channel X-rays. It is composed of a single crystal of lithium niobate. This new technology offers the ...
May 1, 2024 — Scientists have dramatically reduced the time and energy required to chill materials to temperatures near absolute zero. Their prototype refrigerator could prove a boon for the burgeoning quantum ...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- Bio-Inspired Materials' Potential for Efficient Mass Transfer Boosted by a New Twist on a Century-Old Theory
- Low-Energy Process for High-Performance Solar Cells
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
Monday, April 22, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
- New Beta-Decay Measurements in Mirror Nuclei Pin Down the Weak Nuclear Force
- Compact Quantum Light Processing
- Accelerating the Discovery of New Materials Via the Ion-Exchange Method
- Energy Scientists Unravel the Mystery of Gold's Glow
- Development of Organic Semiconductors Featuring Ultrafast Electrons
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Octopus Inspires New Suction Mechanism for Robots
- Mess Is Best: Disordered Structure of Battery-Like Devices Improves Performance
- Novel Material Supercharges Innovation in Electrostatic Energy Storage
- An Ink for 3D-Printing Flexible Devices Without Mechanical Joints
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Atom-by-Atom: Imaging Structural Transformations in 2D Materials
- From Defects to Order: Spontaneously Emerging Crystal Arrangements in Perovskite Halides
- A Better View With New Mid-Infrared Nanoscopy
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- 'Nanostitches' Enable Lighter and Tougher Composite Materials
- Trash to Treasure -- Researchers Turn Metal Waste Into Catalyst for Hydrogen
- Cooler Transformers Could Help Electric Grid
- Neutrons Rule the Roost for Cage-Free Lithium Ions
- Researchers Advance Pigment Chemistry With Moon-Inspired Reddish Magentas
- Physicists Explain--and Eliminate--Unknown Force Dragging Against Water Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces
- A Single Atom Layer of Gold: Researchers Create Goldene
- Quantum Electronics: Charge Travels Like Light in Bilayer Graphene
Monday, April 15, 2024
- New Colorful Plastic Films for Versatile Sensors and Electronic Displays
- Pyrite, Also Known as Fool's Gold, May Contain Valuable Lithium, a Key Element for Green Energy
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- 'Surprising' Hidden Activity of Semiconductor Material Spotted by Researchers
- Rock Permeability, Microquakes Link May Be a Boon for Geothermal Energy
- A New Spin on Organic Shampoo Makes It Sudsier, Longer Lasting
- Nanoscale Movies Shed Light on One Barrier to a Clean Energy Future
- Discovery Brings All-Solid-State Sodium Batteries Closer to Practical Use
- Nothing Is Everything: How Hidden Emptiness Can Define the Usefulness of Filtration Materials
- Synthetic Platelets Stanch Bleeding, Promote Healing in Animal Models