Tag: Materials

Metal-organic framework material requires only water and air to convert the captured gas into nitric acid for industrial useCredit: Jill ...

Small, fast, and highly energy-efficient memory device inspired by lithium-ion batteries

Credit: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Virtually all digital devices that perform any sort of processing of information require not ...

New electrodes could increase efficiency of electric vehicles and aircraft

Credit: Texas A&M Engineering The rise in popularity of electric vehicles and aircraft presents the possibility of moving away from ...

Clean air research converts toxic air pollutant into industrial chemical

Credit: The University of Manchester A toxic pollutant produced by burning fossil fuels can be captured from the exhaust gas ...

New method for using spin waves in magnetic materials

Physicists find a way to eliminate unwanted damping / Study in 'Nature Communications'Credit: B. Divinskiy et al./ Nature Communications Smaller, ...

Lehigh materials science professor elected to Academia Europaea

Prestigious honor from international association recognizes Christopher J. Kiely as a world-renowned expert in electron microscopy and catalyst material characterizationCredit: ...

New antenna tech to equip ceramic coatings with heat radiation control

Credit: Purdue University illustration/Xueji Wang WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The gas turbines powering aircraft engines rely on ceramic coatings that ...

Study probes relationship between strange metals and high-temperature superconductors

Computer simulations yield a much more accurate picture of these states of matterCredit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Strange metals ...

Big plans to save the planet depend on nanoscopic materials improving energy storage

Drexel researchers lead international report on future of nanomaterials for energy storageCredit: Drexel University The challenge of building an energy ...

Breaking (and restoring) graphene’s symmetry in a twistable electronics device

Columbia researchers invent a new way to tune the properties of 2D materials by adjusting the twist angle between them; ...

Chemists create new route to PHAs: naturally degradable bioplastics

Chemical catalysis for an existing class of biomaterialsCredit: John Eisele/Colorado State University Photography A tide of public momentum is swelling ...

Dmitri Zakharov recognized with the 2019 Chuck Fiori Award

The Microscopy Society of America award -- which honors an outstanding technologist in the physical sciences--recognizes Zakharov's contributions to environmental ...

Escher’s angels and demons woodcut predicts how matter deforms

A study published in the prestigious Physical Review LettersCredit: PRL Politecnico di Milano Dutch artist M.C. Escher's most famous drawing, ...

A review of single molecule-based electronic devices