UCI-led team creates new ultralightweight, crush-resistant tensegrity metamaterials
Study shows how century-old design principle can be a pathway to overcoming failureCredit: Jens Bauer and Cameron Crook / UCI ...
Tag: Materials
Capturing all of light’s data in one snapshot
$7.5 million Department of Defense project to create a 'super camera'Credit: Mark Brongersma, Stanford DURHAM, N.C. - Engineers at Duke ...
Novel targeted modification strategy improves selectivity of polyamide nanofiltration membranes
Credit: WANG Jingyu Recently, a research group led by Prof. WAN Yinhua from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of ...
Seeing both sides of light collection
Credit: © 2021 KAUST; Anastasia Serin Two types of materials are better than one when it comes to solar cells, ...
Fine structure revealed of potential alternative to lead compound used in sensors
Credit: Nobuo Nakajima, Hiroshima University Researchers in Japan have used a novel, ultra-fast technique to explore the fine structure of ...
Lehigh U. researchers: ‘One step closer to unlocking mysteries of the bio/nano interface’
Proteins choreograph the infinitesimal dance of living cells and functional biomaterialsCredit: Lehigh University | Thamma, Kowal, Falk, Jain An interdisciplinary ...
Scientists have synthesized a new high-temperature superconductor
Credit: Ivan A. Troyan, et.al./Advanced Materials An international team led by Artem R. Oganov, a Professor at Skoltech and MISIS, ...
Producing highly efficient LEDs based on 2D perovskite films
Credit: Figure source: DOI number: 10.1038/s41467-021-21522-8 Energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been used in our everyday life for many decades. ...
Scientists develop new magnetic nanomaterial for ?ounterfeit money prevention
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov, NUST MISIS An international research team led by NUST MISIS has developed a new iron-cobalt-nickel nanocomposite with ...
Material from Russia will triple the capacity of lithium-ion batteries
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS The scientists of the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (NUST MISIS) being a part ...
Nano-mapping phase transitions in electronic materials
Credit: Duncan T.L. Alexander "Phase transitions" are a central phenomenon in physical sciences. Despite being technical-sounding, they are actually something ...
Army gets boost from world’s largest, fastest metal powder 3D printer
Credit: Clemson University ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- A new technology will speed up development of 3D-printed components for a ...
Sushi-like rolled 2D heterostructures may lead to new miniaturized electronics
Credit: ELIZABETH FLORES-GOMEZ MURRAY/ PENN STATE The recent synthesis of one-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, a type of heterostructure made ...
The mystery of the missing energy – solved
Competition between triplet pair formation and excimer-like recombination controls singlet fission yieldCredit: Thor Balkhed The efficiency of solar cells can ...
Solid-state batteries could be made more cleanly by scaling-up flash sintering
Credit: University of Warwick Flash sintering is a ceramic processing technique which uses electric current to intensively heat the ceramic ...
Combined technique using diamond probes for nanoscale imaging of magnetic vortex structure
Magnetometry exploiting color center defects in diamond probes and magneto-optic imaging found to complement each other; progress towards the creation ...
Microchips of the future: Suitable insulators are still missing
Until now, hexagonal boron nitride was considered the insulator of choice for miniaturized transistors -- new investigations by TU Wien ...
Lights on for silicon photonics
The demonstration of electroluminescence at terahertz frequencies from a silicon-germanium device marks a key step towards the long-sought goal of ...
Cheap, nontoxic carbon nanodots poised to be quantum dots of the future
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Tiny fluorescent semiconductor dots, called quantum dots, are useful in a ...
Finding key to low-cost, fast production of solid-state batteries for EVs
Conventional Li-ion manufacturing tools drive better fabrication options for lighter, safer, more energy-dense batteriesCredit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech A new ...
