Materials Science News
June 3, 2025
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June 2, 2025 — Scientists have reported use of antibacterial coatings made from resilin-mimetic proteins to fully block bacteria from attaching to a surface. A protein that gives fleas their bounce has been used to boot out bacteria cells, with lab results ...
June 2, 2025 — Electronics often get thrown away after use because recycling them requires extensive work for little payoff. Researchers have now found a way to change the ...
June 2, 2025 — Physicists have developed a lens with 'magic' properties. Ultra-thin, it can transform infrared light into visible light by halving the wavelength of incident ...
June 2, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that the mixing of small particles between two solid electrolytes can generate an effect called a 'space charge layer,' an accumulation of electric charge at the interface between the two materials. The finding could aid ...
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June 2, 2025 — Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ...
June 2, 2025 — Researchers have engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems used in self-driving vehicles to gravitational wave detection, one of the ...
May 30, 2025 — Students recently unveiled their invention of a robotic actuator -- the 'muscle' that converts energy into a robot's physical movement -- that has the ability to detect punctures or pressure, heal ...
May 30, 2025 — Researchers proposed a novel strategy for using a magnetic field to boost the efficiency of single-atom catalysts -- thus speeding up helpful reactions used for ammonia production and wastewater ...
May 29, 2025 — In a major advancement for sustainable construction, scientists have created a cement-free soil solidifier from industrial waste. By combining Siding ...
May 29, 2025 — Current regulations for nanomedicines overlook the effects of the different forms of the same element, such as ions, nanoparticles, and aggregates. In a recent study, researchers developed a new ...
May 29, 2025 — Researchers have demonstrated a new technique that uses lasers to create ceramics that can withstand ultra-high temperatures, with applications ...
May 28, 2025 — Materials scientists have succeeded in creating a genuine 2D hybrid material called ...
May 28, 2025 — Physicists have unveiled a breakthrough in quantum sensing by demonstrating a 2D material as a versatile platform for next-generation nanoscale ...
May 29, 2025 — As the world shifts toward sustainable energy sources, 'green hydrogen' - hydrogen produced without emitting carbon - has emerged as a leading ...
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May 29, 2025 — Scientists have developed a powerful new tool for finding the next generation of materials needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. The significant breakthrough means that, for the ...
May 28, 2025 — A new study in Nature describes both the mechanism and the material conditions necessary for superfluorescence at high ...
May 28, 2025 — Engineers have developed a multifunctional, reconfigurable component for an optical computing system that could be a game changer in ...
May 27, 2025 — Researchers find that iron powder, an inexpensive alternative to activated carbon, does a better job at filtering PFOS from water -- it's 26 times more ...
May 27, 2025 — Most people have witnessed -- or rather smelled -- when a protein enzyme called sulfite reductase works its magic. This enzyme catalyzes the chemical reduction of sulfite to hydrogen sulfide. ...
May 27, 2025 — Laser-based metal processing enables the automated and precise production of complex components, whether for the automotive industry or for medicine. However, conventional methods require time- and ...
May 27, 2025 — Engineers developed a fuel cell that offers more than three times as much energy per pound compared to lithium-ion batteries. Powered by a reaction between sodium metal and air, the device could be ...
May 27, 2025 — A research team has discovered ferroelectric phenomena occurring at a subatomic scale in the natural mineral ...
May 23, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a new 2D material, confirming decade-old ...
May 23, 2025 — Scientists create a floss pick that samples cortisol within saliva as a marker of stress and quantifies it with a built-in electrode. The system uses a polymer casting technology that can be adapted ...
May 23, 2025 — Diamond quantum sensors can be used to analyze the magnetization response of soft magnetic materials used in power electronics; report scientists based on collaborative research. Using a novel ...
May 23, 2025 — Blue phosphorescent OLEDs can now last as long as the green phosphorescent OLEDs already in devices, researchers have demonstrated, paving the way for further improving the energy efficiency of OLED ...
May 23, 2025 — A new experiment encodes quantum information in the motion of the atoms and creates a state known as hyper-entanglement, in which two or more traits are linked among a pair of ...
May 23, 2025 — Researchers united insights from cellular biology, quantum computing, old-fashioned semiconductors and high-definition TVs to both create a revolutionary new quantum biosensor. In doing so, they shed ...
May 22, 2025 — Self-driving cars which eliminate traffic jams, getting a healthcare diagnosis instantly without leaving your home, or feeling the touch of loved ones based across the continent may sound like the ...
May 22, 2025 — A newly discovered silicone variant is a semiconductor, researchers have discovered -- upending assumptions that the material class is exclusively ...
May 22, 2025 — Researchers developed a faster, more stable way to simulate the swirling electric fields inside industrial plasmas -- the kind used to make microchips and coat materials. The improved method could ...
May 22, 2025 — Proteins catalyze life by changing shape when they interact with other molecules. The result is a muscle twitching, the perception of light, or a bit of energy extracted from food. The ability to ...
May 22, 2025 — Engineers developed a membrane that filters the components of crude oil by their molecular size, an advance that could dramatically reduce the amount of energy needed for crude oil ...
May 22, 2025 — Chemists have developed an efficient skeletal editing method for frequently used heteroaromatic structures. The technique could serve as a means to chemically modify biologically active ...
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
- Solitonic Superfluorescence Paves Way for High-Temperature Quantum Materials
- New Chiral Photonic Device Combines Light Manipulation With Memory
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
- Just Add Iron: Researchers Develop a Clever Way to Remove Forever Chemicals from Water
- Cryo-Em Freezes the Funk: How Scientists Visualized a Pungent Protein
- Machine Learning Simplifies Industrial Laser Processes
- New Fuel Cell Could Enable Electric Aviation
- Nature-Inspired Breakthrough Enables Subatomic Ferroelectric Memory
Friday, May 23, 2025
- 'Hopelessly Attached': Scientists Discover New 2D Material That Sticks the Landing
- A Dental Floss That Can Measure Stress
- Quantum Eyes on Energy Loss: Diamond Quantum Imaging for Next-Gen Power Electronics
- Efficiency Upgrade for OLED Screens: A Route to Blue PHOLED Longevity
- Controlling Quantum Motion and Hyper-Entanglement
- New Biosensor Solves Old Quantum Riddle
Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Researchers Make Breakthrough in Semiconductor Technology Set to Supercharge 6G Delivery
- A Rule-Breaking, Colorful Silicone That Could Conduct Electricity
- A Faster, More Reliable Method for Simulating the Plasmas Used to Make Computer Chips
- An Artificial Protein That Moves Like Something Found in Nature
- A New Approach Could Fractionate Crude Oil Using Much Less Energy
- New Atom-Swapping Method Applied to Complex Organic Structures
- 'Green' Ammonia Powered by Sunlight
- 3D Printers Leave Hidden 'fingerprints' That Reveal Part Origins
- Mathematical Prediction of Seismic Wave Propagation in Magma Containing Crystals and Bubbles
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
- Engineers Discover a New Class of Materials That Passively Harvest Water from Air
- Scientists Discover Class of Crystals With Properties That May Prove Revolutionary
- Nano-Engineered Thermoelectrics Enable Scalable, Compressor-Free Cooling
- Major Step for Flat and Adjustable Optics
- A Leap Forward in Transparent Antimicrobial Coatings
- Achieving a Record-High Curie Temperature in Ferromagnetic Semiconductor
- Physics Advance Details New Way to Control Solid Objects in Liquid
- Picometric Spectroscopy of Hydrogen Molecules in Atomic-Scale Cavities
- A New Technology for Extending the Shelf Life of Produce
- Mind the Band Gap! -- Researchers Create New Nanoscale Forms of Elementary Semiconductor With Tunable Electronic Properties
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
- Remotely Moving Objects Underwater Using Sound
- Commercially Available Peroxide Binds Incompatible Polymers for Recycling
- How Membranes May Have Brought About the Chemistry of Life on Earth
- New Color-Changing Sensor Detects Alcohol With a Smartphone Snap
- Scientific Breakthrough Brings CO2 'breathing' Batteries Closer to Reality
- Forgotten Property of the Electron
- Cool Science: Researchers Craft Tiny Biological Tools Using Frozen Ethanol
Monday, May 19, 2025
- Invisible Currents at the Edge: Research Team Shows How Magnetic Particles Reveal a Hidden Rule of Nature
- Remotely Controlled Robots at Your Fingertips: Enhancing Safety in Industrial Sites
- The Invisible Order Sets the Fluctuation in the Terahertz Region of Glass
- Chemists Develop Compact Catenane With Tuneable Mechanical Chirality
Friday, May 16, 2025
- Individual Layers of Synthetic Materials Can Collaborate for Greater Impact
- Designing the Future of Clean Energy: Janus Heterobilayers Lead the Way
- Log in to Your Computer With a Secret Message Encoded in a Molecule
Thursday, May 15, 2025
- Bismuth's Mask Uncovered: Implications for Quantum Computing and Spintronics Materials
- Resistance Is Futile: Superconducting Diodes Are the Future
- A Novel Hybrid Charge Transfer Crystal With Reversible Color-Changing Property
- New Dual-Atom Catalyst Boosts Performance of Zinc-Air Batteries for Real-World Applications
- Researchers Develop New Metallic Materials Using Data-Driven Frameworks and Explainable AI
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
- Superconductors: Amazingly Orderly Disorder
- Engineers Tackle Sunlight Intermittency in Solar Desalination
- Following the Folds -- With Quantum Technology
- Digital Lab for Data And Robot-Driven Materials Science
- Sugar-Coated Nanotherapy Dramatically Improves Neuron Survival in Alzheimer's Model
- New Catalyst Boosts Efficiency of CO2 Conversion
- Understanding Carbon Traps
- Researchers Discover a More Eco-Friendly Approach to Study Light and Matter Interaction -- Could Revolutionize Development of Emerging Technologies
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
- Enzymes from Scratch
- Researchers Demonstrate 3-D Printing Technology to Improve Comfort, Durability of 'smart Wearables'
- Researchers Develop Living Material from Fungi
- Remote Particle Measurement Via Quantum Entanglement
- Robotic Hand Moves Objects With Human-Like Grasp
Monday, May 12, 2025
Friday, May 9, 2025
- Ultrasound Unlocks a Safer, Greener Way to Make Hydrogels
- World Record for Lithium-Ion Conductors
- A Smarter Way to Make Sulfones: Using Molecular Oxygen and a Functional Catalyst
- Self-Assembly of a Large Metal-Peptide Capsid Nanostructure Through Geometric Control
- Bringing Superconducting Nanostructures to 3D
- Green Fabrication of Hybrid Materials as Highly Sensitive X-Ray Detectors
- Stability Solution Brings Unique Form of Carbon Closer to Practical Application
Thursday, May 8, 2025
- 3D Printing in Vivo Using Sound
- One Glass, Full Color: Sub-Millimeter Waveguide Shrinks AR Glasses
- Turning Non-Magnetic Materials Magnetic With Atomically Thin Films
- New Microscope Reveals Heat Flow in Materials for Green Energy
- Eco-Friendly Aquatic Robot Is Made from Fish Food
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
- New Discovery Shows How Molecules Can Mute Heat Like Music
- Feat of 'dung-Gineering' Turns Cow Manure Into One of World's Most Used Materials
- New Roadmap Advances Catalytic Solutions to Destroy 'forever Chemicals'
- Piecing Together the Brain Puzzle
- New Vacuum-Assisted Extrusion Technique Improves Performance of Polymer Prints
- Cracking the Code: Deciphering How Concrete Can Heal Itself
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
- Vapor-Deposited Perovskite Semiconductors Power Next Generation Circuits
- Study of Velvet Worm Slime Could Revolutionize Sustainable Material Design
- Practical New Tool Created for Detecting Nanoplastics and Microplastics in the Environment
- Ultra-Thin Bismuth Holds Unexpected Promise for Green Electronics
- Okra, Fenugreek Extracts Remove Most Microplastics from Water
- Accelerating Drug Discovery With a Single Carbon Atom
- Breakthrough in Fuel Cell Recycling Turns 'forever Chemicals' Into Renewable Resources
- Would a Musical Triangle of Any Other Shape Sound as Sweet?
- Scientists Discover a New Way to Convert Corn Waste Into Low-Cost Sugar for Biofuel
- Accordion Effect Makes Graphene Stretchable
Monday, May 5, 2025
- Robotic Touch Sensors Are Not Just Skin Deep
- A Big Data Approach for Battery Electrolytes
- Physical Cloaking Works Like a Disappearing Act for Structural Defects