Boron carbide is used in the design of planes, trains, and cars. University of Seville…
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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.
An international team co-led by an Oregon State University chemistry researcher has uncovered a better…
Chemists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a method that could turn…
Creating switchable plasmons in plastics: Conductive polymer nanoantennas for dynamic organic plasmonics. Researchers in the…
Cross-Linking Technology Tightly Binds Where Commercial Glues Cannot With many of the products we use…
What do bones and 3D-printed buildings have in common? They both have columns and beams…
We often find that food becomes rotten when we leave it outside for long and…
Successful trials of titanium-copper alloys for 3D printing could kickstart a new range of high-performance…
It reveals an abrupt transition in cuprates where particles give up their individuality; the results…
A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of…
Reversible electronic solid-gel switching of a conjugated polymer. Researchers at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics…
Armored with plastic ‘hair’ and silica, new perovskite nanocrystals show more durability. Perovskite nanocrystals hold…
Scientists showed for the first time the presence of unique magnetic transitions in peculiar structures…
Scientists at the University of California Santa Barbara, HRL Laboratories LLC, and the U.S. Army…
ETH researchers used a 3D printing process to produce complex and highly porous glass objects.…
The ‘e-textile’ prototype uses sustainable and low-cost materials like tomato skin. Researchers of the Faculty…
New material should be relatively easy to produce at an industrial scale, researchers say. MIT…
Cornell researchers have made a new discovery about how seemingly minor aspects of the internal…