Tag: Materials

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

March 9, 2021

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

March 9, 2021

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

March 9, 2021

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 ...

Young Investigator Award

UD engineering professor honored for excellence in molecular beam researchCredit: Photo by Evan Krape Periods of history are often defined ...

Meet Turing structures in manmade interface