Scientists from Queen Mary University of London and the Russian Academy of Sciences have found…
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Materials science is the interdisciplinary study of the properties, structure, and performance of materials—from metals, ceramics, and polymers to nanomaterials and biomaterials. It combines principles of physics, chemistry, and engineering to understand how atomic and molecular structures determine a material’s behavior and functionality. Researchers in this field design and synthesize new materials for advanced technologies, including semiconductors, batteries, renewable energy systems, quantum devices, and medical implants. By exploring phenomena such as superconductivity, self-healing materials, and metamaterials, materials science drives innovation across industries and shapes the future of sustainable energy, electronics, and manufacturing.
Biological structures sometimes have unique features that engineers would like to copy. For example, many…
Uniform nanometer-thick MXene* films can be used as electromagnetic shields in flexible electronics and 5G…
Scientists have developed a method for precise, fast, and high-quality laser processing of halide perovskites,…
Using electronic devices for too long can cause them to overheat, which might slow them…
Stabilizing the surface of over-lithiated layered oxides using DNA from salmon and carbon nanotubes. Improved…
Scientists at Ames Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the University of Alabama Birmingham have discovered…
Inspired by how human bone and colorful coral reefs adjust mineral deposits in response to…
Organic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have been around for over forty years. The most widely used…
Bumps on a road slow down our pace, so do corrugations in graphene to traveling…
Turning a brittle oxide into a flexible membrane and stretching it on a tiny apparatus…
Technique adapted at Berkeley Lab X-ray facility finds growing use for next-gen battery R&D. From…
A collaboration of scientists from the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II)—a U.S. Department of…
Scientists at the University of South Florida have reached a new milestone in the development…
Scientists around the world are scrambling to adapt their research to find solutions to the…
The magnetic transition of troilite causes instabilities in the ‘space metal’s’ structure that transforms it…
Researchers Develop One-Way Street for Electrons Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
Synthetic microparticles more intricate than some of the most complicated ones found in nature have…