Messenger RNA, which can induce cells to produce therapeutic proteins, holds great promise for treating…
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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.
A cheap and effective new catalyst developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley,…
Filtering and treating water, both for human consumption and to clean industrial and municipal wastewater,…
New battery design could greatly extend the shelf life of single-use metal-air batteries for electric…
Yale researchers have developed a procedure that can replicate surface structures at the atomic scale…
Researchers at EPFL’s Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering have developed a photocatalytic system based…
“Omniphobic” might sound like a way to describe someone who is afraid of everything, but…
In the fight against drug-resistant bacteria, MIT researchers have enlisted the help of beneficial bacteria…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuAY5Y_INYQ Developed in the lab of Yale’s Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, NASA-inspired robotic skins enable users to…
MIT engineers have united the principles of self-assembly and 3-D printing using a new technique,…
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to…
Materials scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have developed a highly efficient thin-film…
Addressing a centuries-old question, researchers have uncovered a key element to how glasses transition into…
The latest development in textiles and fibers is a kind of soft hardware that you…
An international research group applied theoretical physics methods to investigate the Great Pyramid’s electromagnetic response…
Rice University researchers have found that fracture-resistant “rebar graphene” is more than twice as tough…
In the last several years, 3D printing with plastics has advanced rapidly. Now, a team…
Nanokirigami has taken off as a field of research in the last few years; the…