Moiré Effect: How to Twist Exciting New Material Properties
2D materials have triggered a boom in materials research. Now it turns out that exciting effects occur when two such layered materials are stacked and…
Materials Science
Cooling Homes Without Warming the Planet – New Technology for More Efficient AC
The startup Transaera is using a class of materials, advanced by MIT Professor Mircea Dinca for over a decade, to create a more energy-efficient air…
Big Breakthrough for “Massless” Energy Storage: Structural Battery That Performs 10x Better Than All Previous Versions
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have produced a structural battery that performs ten times better than all previous versions. It contains carbon fiber that…
Zapping Quantum Materials With Lasers Reveals How Atoms Relate
Lex Kemper is an associate professor of physics at NC State. He studies quantum materials: solid materials that have nifty physical properties that make them…
Enhanced Ceramics Could Play Pivotal Role in Advancing High-Frequency 5G Technology
Some 5G technologies are still considered the wild west in material, design development. 5G, or the fifth-generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, is touted…
Automated Chemistry Combines Chemical Robotics and AI to Accelerate Pace for Advancing Solar Energy Technologies
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee are automating the search for new materials to advance solar…
Changing the Silkworm’s Diet to Spin Silk 2x Stronger
Tohoku University researchers have produced cellulose nanofiber (CNF) synthesized silk naturally through a simple tweak to silkworms’ diet. Mixing CNF with commercially available food and…
New Electrochromic Material Can Rapidly Change Color Through Electricity
Smart glass can change its color quickly through electricity. A new material developed by LMU-chemists has now set a speed record for such a change….
Columbia Engineers Use DNA Nanotechnology to Build Tough 3D Nanomaterials
Columbia Engineers use DNA nanotechnology to create highly resilient synthetic nanoparticle-based materials that can be processed through conventional nanofabrication methods. Columbia Engineering researchers, working with Brookhaven…
Engineers Creates New Ultralightweight, Crush-Resistant Tensegrity Metamaterials
Study shows how century-old design principle can be a pathway to overcoming failure. Catastrophic collapse of materials and structures is the inevitable consequence of a…
Breakthrough Means a Sustainable, Powerful Micro-Supercapacitor May Be on the Horizon
A sustainable, powerful micro-supercapacitor may be on the horizon, thanks to an international collaboration of researchers from Penn State and the University of Electronic Science…
Catching Electrons in Action in an Antiferromagnetic Nanowire for Ultrahigh-Density Data Storage
The electron is one of the fundamental particles in nature we read about in school. Its behavior holds clues to new ways to store digital…
Pioneering Experiment Turns IBM’s Largest Quantum Computer Into a Quantum Material
Pioneering experiment could help design energy-efficient materials. In a groundbreaking study published in Physical Review Research, a group of University of Chicago scientists announced they…
MIT Engineers Have Developed Self-Cooling Fabrics of the Future That Could Be Made From Recycled Plastic Bags
Engineers have developed self-cooling fabrics from polyethylene, a material commonly used in plastic bags. In considering materials that could become the fabrics of the future,…
Unusual Material Features Spontaneous Superconducting Currents – Why It Superconducts at All Is Completely Unknown
Superconductivity is a complete loss of electrical resistance. Superconductors are not merely very good metals: it is a fundamentally different electronic state. In normal metals,…
Twisting, Flexible Crystals Key to Advanced New Solar Cells
Researchers show how shapes and movements of halide perovskites create desirable renewable energy properties. Researchers at Duke University have revealed long-hidden molecular dynamics that provide…
“Photonic Sunflower” – Controlled by Light Alone, New Smart Materials Twist, Bend and Move
Technology paves way for intelligent solar cells, other highly efficient devices programmed at the macro and nano scale. Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering…
New High-Temperature Superconductor Synthesized by Scientists
An international team led by Artem R. Oganov, a Professor at Skoltech and MISIS, and Dr. Ivan Troyan from the Institute of Crystallography of RAS…