Materials Science News
May 23, 2024
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May 23, 2024 — Chemistry researchers are hoping to spark a green battery revolution by showing that iron instead of cobalt and nickel can be used as a cathode material in lithium-ion ...
May 21, 2024 — Scientists report a family of tin-based catalysts that efficiently converts CO2 into ethanol, acetic acid and formic acid. These liquid hydrocarbons are among the most produced chemicals in the U.S and are found in many commercial ...
May 22, 2024 — I'm not touching you! When another person's finger hovers over your skin, you may get the sense that they're touching you, feeling not necessarily contact, but their proximity. Similarly, researchers have designed a soft, flexible film that senses ...
May 22, 2024 — Use of the greenhouse gas CO2 as a chemical raw material would not only reduce emissions, but also the consumption of fossil feedstocks. A novel metal-free organic framework could make it possible to electrocatalytically produce ethylene, a primary ...
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May 21, 2024 — Scientists describe a new method to make very thin crystals of the element bismuth -- a process that may aid the manufacturing of cheap flexible ...
May 20, 2024 — Carbon nanotube (CNT) yarns are promising for flexible and fabric-type wearable materials that can convert waste heat into thermoelectricity. To improve the thermoelectric properties of CNT yarns, ...
May 14, 2024 — The insights into the formation of various phases, including intermetallic compounds, at the interface between nickel (Ni) and tungsten (W) can lead ...
May 21, 2024 — Which factors determine how quickly a battery can be charged? Microstructural models have helped researchers discover and investigate new electrode materials. When sodium-nickel-manganese oxide is ...
May 22, 2024 — In a new study, a team of researchers used research on fossilizing techniques to create a new method for sealing cracks and fractures in rocks and ...
May 21, 2024 — See how an autonomous robot created a shock-absorbing shape no human ever could -- and what it means for designing safer helmets, packaging, car bumpers, and ...
May 22, 2024 — Researchers have engineered string-like resonators capable of vibrating longer at ambient temperature than any previously known solid-state object -- approaching what is currently only achievable ...
May 22, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that when metal is struck by an object moving at a super high velocity, the heat makes the metal stronger. The finding could lead to new approaches to designing materials ...
May 22, 2024 — Scientists have uncovered the properties of a rare earth element that was first discovered 80 years ago at the very same laboratory, opening a new pathway for the exploration of elements critical in ...
May 22, 2024 — Engineers have found a way to eliminate the buildup of scar tissue around implantable devices, by coating them with a hydrogel adhesive. The material binds the device to tissue and prevents the ...
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May 22, 2024 — Researchers have developed a method to produce very low emission concrete at scale -- an innovation that could be transformative in the transition to net zero. The method, which the researchers say ...
May 21, 2024 — Natural materials like bone, bird feathers and wood have an intelligent approach to physical stress distribution, despite their irregular architectures. However, the relationship between stress ...
May 20, 2024 — Investigating ways to create high-performance steel, a research team used theoretical calculations on 120 combinations of 12 alloy elements, such as aluminum and titanium, with carbon and nitrogen, ...
May 20, 2024 — Scientists have taken a step closer to replicating nature's processes of self-assembly. The study describes the synthetic construction of a tiny, self-assembled crystal known as a ...
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 ...
May 17, 2024 — Scientists have the first direct evidence that the powerful magnetic fields created in off-center collisions of atomic nuclei induce an electric current in 'deconfined' nuclear matter. The ...
May 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed a groundbreaking data-driven model to predict the dehydrogenation barriers of magnesium hydride, a promising material for solid-state hydrogen storage. This advancement ...
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 otherwise go to waste. Researchers report a new ...
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 — 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 ...
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 ...
May 16, 2024 — Researchers have found that persimmon tannin, known for its antioxidant properties, improves the growth of yeast in the presence of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Monday, May 20, 2024
- Seeking Stronger Steel, Systematic Look at 120 Combinations of Alloy Elements Provides Clues
- Blueprints of Self-Assembly
Friday, May 17, 2024
- Ion Irradiation Offers Promise for 2D Material Probing
- Magnetic Imprint on Deconfined Nuclear Matter
- New Data-Driven Model Rapidly Predicts Dehydrogenation Barriers in Solid-State Materials
- Diamond Glitter: A Play of Colors With Artificial DNA Crystals
Thursday, May 16, 2024
- A Powerful Tool Speeds Success in Achieving Highly Efficient Thermoelectric Materials
- Scientists Use Generative AI to Answer Complex Questions in Physics
- Breaking Bonds to Form Bonds: Rethinking the Chemistry of Cations
- Spider Silk Sound System
- More Efficient Bioethanol Production Might Be Possible Using Persimmon Tannin to Help Yeast Thrive
- Shedding Light on Perovskite Hydrides Using a New Deposition Technique
- Bioengineered Enzyme Creates Natural Vanillin from Plants in One Step
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- What Is the Carbon Footprint of a House in Japan?
- 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
- Next-Generation Sustainable Electronics Are Doped With Air
- 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
- How to Make Ubiquitous Plastics Biodegradable
- Speedy, Secure, Sustainable -- That's the Future of Telecom
- An Easy Pill to Swallow -- New 3D Printing Research Paves Way for Personalized Medication
- Scientists Create an 'optical Conveyor Belt' For Quasiparticles
- Transforming Waste Carbon Dioxide Into High-Value Chemicals With a Cost Reduction of About 30%
Monday, May 13, 2024
- Milestone in Plasma Acceleration
- 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