Materials Science News
July 26, 2024
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July 25, 2024 — The key to developing quantum electronics may have a few kinks. According to researchers, that's not a bad thing when it comes to the precise control needed to fabricate and operate such devices, including advanced sensors and lasers. The ...
July 25, 2024 — Chemists have synthesized materials that can improve solar elements for indoor use. Such photovoltaic cells, which can also be integrated into various electronic devices, generate electricity even in low-light ...
July 25, 2024 — In a scientific breakthrough, an international research team has developed a quantum sensor capable of detecting minute magnetic fields at the atomic length scale. This pioneering work realizes a long-held dream of scientists: an MRI-like tool for ...
July 25, 2024 — 3D-printed blood vessels, which closely mimic the properties of human veins, could transform the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Strong, flexible, gel-like tubes -- created using a novel 3D printing technology -- could improve outcomes for ...
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July 25, 2024 — Engineers discovered that when the aluminum in soda cans is purified and mixed with seawater, the solution produces hydrogen -- which can power an engine or fuel cell without generating carbon ...
July 25, 2024 — A new method to measure the continuous spectrum of light is set to improve thermal imaging and infrared ...
July 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed a material that shows a remarkable ability to convert sunlight and water into clean ...
July 22, 2024 — In recent years, batteries have become ubiquitous in consumers' daily lives. However, existing commercial battery technologies, which use liquid ...
July 22, 2024 — Two-dimensional (2D) materials have atomic-level thickness and excellent mechanical and physical properties, with broad application prospects in ...
July 25, 2024 — Researchers are proposing a new way to curb industrial emissions, by tapping into the 'atomic intelligence' of liquid metals to deliver greener and more sustainable chemical ...
July 24, 2024 — Engineers have shown that something as simple as the flow of air through open-cell foam can be used to perform digital computation, analog sensing and combined digital-analog control in soft ...
July 24, 2024 — A research team is tackling the environmental issue of efficiently recycling lithium ion batteries amid their increasing ...
July 24, 2024 — The reactivity of zirconium on silicon nitride enhances the conversion of propane into propylene, a key commodity chemical needed to make ...
July 24, 2024 — The praying mantis is one of the few insects with compound eyes and the ability to perceive 3D space. Engineers are replicating their visual systems to make machines see ...
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July 24, 2024 — A tunable metasurface can control optical light in space and time, offering a path toward new ways of wirelessly and securely transmitting large amounts of data both on Earth and in ...
July 24, 2024 — Chemists have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a 'golden' ...
July 24, 2024 — Novel porous crystalline solid shows promise as an efficient and durable material for ammonia (NH3) capture and storage, report scientists. Made through a simple reprecipitation process, the proposed ...
July 23, 2024 — Researchers have successfully made super-heavy element 116 using a beam of titanium-50. That milestone sets the team up to attempt making the heaviest element yet: ...
July 23, 2024 — A prototype device harvests drinking water from the atmosphere, even in arid ...
July 23, 2024 — Chemists have developed a rapid electrothermal mineralization (REM) process, which in seconds can remediate the accumulation of synthetic chemicals that can contaminate soil and the ...
July 23, 2024 — A room-temperature method to decompose perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) using visible LED light offers a promising solution for sustainable fluorine recycling and PFAS ...
July 22, 2024 — Scientists are bioprinting 3D structures with a material that is a close match for human tissue, paving the way for true ...
July 22, 2024 — Aluminum scandium nitride thin films could pave the way for the next generation of ferroelectric memory devices, according to a new study. Compared to existing ferroelectric materials, these films ...
July 22, 2024 — An international team of researchers has embedded gold nanorods in hydrogels that can be processed through 3D printing to create structures that contract when exposed to light -- and expand again ...
July 19, 2024 — When deciding what material to use for infrastructure projects, metals are often selected for their durability. However, if placed in a hydrogen-rich environment, like water, metals can become ...
July 19, 2024 — Understanding how soft materials fail under stress is critical for solving engineering challenges as disparate as pharmaceutical technology and landslide prevention. A new study linking a spectrum of ...
July 19, 2024 — A new study describes a chemical reaction that can convert Styrofoam into a high-value conducting polymer known as PEDOT:PSS. Researchers also noted that the upgraded plastic waste can be ...
July 19, 2024 — Chemists have been working to synthesize high-value materials from waste molecules for ...
July 19, 2024 — Researchers have found that titanium-48 changes from a shell model structure to an alpha-cluster structure depending on the distance from the center of the nucleus. The results upend the conventional ...
July 19, 2024 — Researchers has revealed the existence of surface concavities on individual crystal grains -- which are the fundamental blocks -- of perovskite thin films, and have unraveled their significant ...
July 17, 2024 — An environmental engineering team has discovered that specific bacterial species can cleave the strong fluorine-to-carbon bond certain kinds of 'forever chemical' water pollutants, offering ...
July 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed soft, stretchable 'jelly batteries' that could be used for wearable devices or soft robotics, or even implanted in the brain to deliver drugs or treat conditions ...
July 17, 2024 — Researchers engineered a new technique to identify at the nanoscale level what components are overheating in electronics and causing their performance to ...
July 17, 2024 — New experimental results show particles called muons can be corralled into beams suitable for high-energy collisions, paving the way for new ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
- Nanoscale Device Simultaneously Steers and Shifts Frequency of Optical Light, Pointing the Way to Future Wireless Communication Channels
- How Rembrandt Combined Special Pigments for Golden Details of The Night Watch
- A Single-Molecule-Based Organic Porous Material With Great Potential for Efficient Ammonia Storage
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
- A New Way to Make Element 116 Opens the Door to Heavier Atoms
- Drawing Water from Dry Air
- Researchers Develop More Environmentally Friendly and Cost-Effective Method for Soil Remediation
- A Promising New Method Uses Light to Clean Up Forever Chemicals
Monday, July 22, 2024
- Organs on Demand? Scientists Print Voxel Building Blocks
- Aluminum Scandium Nitride Films: Enabling Next-Gen Ferroelectric Memory Devices
- 3D Printing of Light-Activated Hydrogel Actuators
Friday, July 19, 2024
- Cracking the Code of Hydrogen Embrittlement
- Researchers Clarify How Soft Materials Fail Under Stress
- Waste Styrofoam Can Now Be Converted Into Polymers for Electronics
- Chemists Design Novel Method for Generating Sustainable Fuel
- Come Closer: Titanium-48's Nuclear Structure Changes When Observed at Varying Distances
- 'Secret' Hidden Structure Paves New Way of Making More Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- Microbes Found to Destroy Certain 'forever Chemicals'
- Soft, Stretchy 'jelly Batteries' Inspired by Electric Eels
- New Technique Pinpoints Nanoscale 'hot Spots' In Electronics to Improve Their Longevity
- Powerful New Particle Accelerator a Step Closer With Muon-Marshalling Technology
- Physicists Develop New Theory Describing the Energy Landscape Formed When Quantum Particles Gather Together
- Completely Stretchy Lithium-Ion Battery for Flexible Electronics
- Smart Soil Can Water and Feed Itself
- Bridging the 'Valley of Death' In Carbon Capture
- Paving the Way to Extremely Fast, Compact Computer Memory
- The Magnet Trick: New Invention Makes Vibrations Disappear
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- Scientists Develop New Artificial Intelligence Method to Create Material 'fingerprints'
- Metamaterials for the Data Highway
- Capturing Carbon With Energy-Efficient Sodium Carbonate-Nanocarbon Hybrid Material
- Breakthrough in Quantum Microscopy: Researchers Are Making Electrons Visible in Slow Motion
Monday, July 15, 2024
- Making Rechargeable Batteries More Sustainable With Fully Recyclable Components
- Biodegradable Electronics May Advance With Ability to Control Dissolve Rate
- Producing Hydrogen and Fertilizer at the Same Time
- Crystals from Radioactive Metal Actinium
- Scientists Create Computer Program That 'paints' The Structure of Molecules in the Style of Piet Mondrian
Friday, July 12, 2024
- Microbeads With Adaptable Fluorescent Colors from Visible Light to Near-Infrared
- A Chemical Claw Machine Bends and Stretches When Exposed to Vapors
- Neutrons Give a Hot New Way to Measure the Temperature of Electronic Components
- Aperiodic Approximants for Relating Quasicrystals and Modulated Structures
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- Muscle Machine: How Water Controls the Speed of Muscle Contraction
- Light-Induced Meissner Effect
- Nanoplastics and 'forever Chemicals' Disrupt Molecular Structures, Functionality
- Bacteria Form Glasslike State
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- High-Speed Electron Camera Uncovers a New 'light-Twisting' Behavior in an Ultrathin Material
- A New Twist on Artificial 'muscles' For Safer, Softer Robots
- A New Material Derived from Graphene Improves the Performance of Neuroprostheses
- A Breakthrough on the Edge: One Step Closer to Topological Quantum Computing
- BESSY II Shows How Solid-State Batteries Degrade
- Researchers Show Promising Material for Solar Energy Gets Its Curious Boost from Entropy
- Could High-Temperature Single Crystals Enable Electric Vehicles Capable of Traveling Up to One Million Kilometers?
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
- Moving from the Visible to the Infrared: Developing High Quality Nanocrystals
- Progress in Development of a New High-Tech Kidney Disease Urine Test
- Mining Rare Earth Metals from Electronic Waste
- Detecting Defects in Tomorrow's Technology
- Researchers Fabricate Ultrastrong Aluminum Alloys for Additive Manufacturing
- It Takes a Cool Microscope and Antifreeze to Really Look at Ice
Monday, July 8, 2024
- Chemistry Inspired by One-Pot Cooking
- New Extremely Fast Carbon Storage Technology
- Hexagonal Perovskite Oxides: Electrolytes for Next-Generation Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells
- Visualizing Short-Lived Intermediate Compounds Produced During Chemical Reactions
Friday, July 5, 2024
- Ionic Liquids: 'Don't Shake It'
- Engineers Find a Way to Protect Microbes from Extreme Conditions
- Innovative Battery Design: More Energy and Less Environmental Impact
- A 2D Device for Quantum Cooling
Thursday, July 4, 2024
- Single Atoms Show Their True Color
- New Organic Molecule Shatters Phosphorescence Efficiency Records and Paves Way for Rare Metal-Free Applications
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
- Scientists Discover Way to 'grow' Sub-Nanometer Sized Transistors
- A Breakthrough in Inexpensive, Clean, Fast-Charging Batteries
- A Genetic Algorithm for Phononic Crystals
- Flexible and Durable Bioelectrodes: The Future of Healthcare Wearables
- Mechanism of Bio-Inspired Control of Liquid Flow
- Mapping the Surfaces of MXenes, Atom by Atom, Reveals New Potential for the 2D Materials
- How to Increase the Rate of Plastics Recycling
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
- Using Visible Light to Make Pharmaceutical Building Blocks
- Precise and Less Expensive 3D Printing of Complex, High-Resolution Structures
- Nuclear Spectroscopy Breakthrough Could Rewrite the Fundamental Constants of Nature
- Optoelectronics Gain Spin Control from Chiral Perovskites and III-V Semiconductors
- Neutrons on Classically Inexplicable Paths
- Researchers Unlock 'materials Genome', Opening Possibilities for Next-Generation Design
- Implantable Microphone Could Lead to Fully Internal Cochlear Implants
Monday, July 1, 2024
- Self-Assembling, Highly Conductive Sensors Could Improve Wearable Devices
- Scientists Probe Chilling Behavior of Promising Solid-State Cooling Material
- Melanin from Cuttlefish Ink as a Sustainable Biomass Resource
Friday, June 28, 2024
- New Computational Microscopy Technique Provides More Direct Route to Crisp Images
- Soft, Stretchy Electrode Simulates Touch Sensations Using Electrical Signals
Thursday, June 27, 2024
- Visual Explanations of Machine Learning Models to Estimate Charge States in Quantum Dots
- The Future of Metals Research With Artificial Intelligence
- Synthetic Fuels and Chemicals from CO2: Ten Experiments in Parallel
- Light-Controlled Artificial Maple Seeds Could Monitor the Environment Even in Hard-to-Reach Locations
- No More Stressing out Over Structural Formulas
- New Materials: Synthetic Pathway for Promising Nitride Compounds Discovered
- Aromatic Compounds: A Ring Made Up Solely of Metal Atoms
- Cheaper, More Convenient Method to Detect Asbestos
- Common Plastics Could Passively Cool and Heat Buildings With the Seasons
- Characterization of the Extraordinary Thermoelectric Properties of Cadmium Arsenide Thin Films
- Scientists Use Computational Modeling to Guide a Difficult Chemical Synthesis
- New, Holistic Way to Teach Synthetic Biology
- Materials Research Revolutionized by a Small Change