Material Science & Technology

Printing Electronic Parts for Next-Generation Technologies Custom inks and new printing techniques allow creating strong transistors for smart devices Tiny electronic parts, known as microelectronics, may one day be printed...

Ultra-compact AI chip operating at speed of light Australian researchers have built an ultra-compact artificial intelligence (AI) chip that is able to make calculations using the power of light, at...

Exploring materials at the atomic scale Exploring materials at the atomic scale: The X-ray diffraction and imaging facility at MIT.nano adds a new tool to support research in a wide...

Reshaping gold leads to new electronic and optical properties By changing the physical structure of gold at the nanoscale, researchers can drastically change how the material interacts with light –...

Geometry revealed at the heart of quantum matter A UNIGE team reveals a once purely theoretical geometry at the heart of quantum materials, with major implications for future electronics. How...

Wrinkles in atomically thin materials unlock ultra efficient electronics By Silvia Cernea Clark Wrinkles can be an asset — especially for next-generation electronics. Rice University scientists have discovered that tiny...

New Possibilities for Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy A look beneath the surface: Research team at the University of Münster makes hidden structural and magnetic properties visible Scientists use scanning tunnelling microscopy...

Physicists confirm elusive quantum spin liquid in new study An international team of scientists led by Rice University’s Pengcheng Dai has confirmed the existence of emergent photons and fractionalized spin...

A building material that lives and stores carbon Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic cyanobacteria grow inside it, forming biomass and...

Nanofibers yield stronger, tougher carbon fiber composites Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an innovative new technique using carbon nanofibers to...