Material Science & Technology

Breakthrough by UChicago chemists could yield future devices such as nanocrystals to improve next-gen displays and solar cells. You can carry an entire computer in your pocket today because the...

Solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, offering greater energy density and range than contemporary lithium-ion batteries, remain out of reach, not least due to challenges coming from the composition of the...

The way electrons flow in materials determine its electronic properties. For example, when a voltage is sustained across a conducting material, electrons start flowing, generating an electrical current. These electrons...

MIT physicists have taken a significant step toward direct evidence of strong evidence of electron correlations in 2D material called ABC trilayer graphene. This material has previously been shown to...

Scientists from Sandia National Laboratories have announced a tiny, electronic device that can shunt excess electricity within a few billionths of a second while operating at a record-breaking 6,400 volts...

Technique by UChicago scientists creates ‘assembly line’ for integrating new materials. Let’s say you’re an engineer with an idea for a new car. But before you even can start experimenting,...

A novel and better approach to Seeing non-uniformities in 2D materials could potentially open the door to new uses for these materials, such as for drug detection, according to a...

Improvements in the material that converts X-rays into light, for medical or industrial images, could allow a tenfold signal enhancement called Improved Scintillators. Scintillators (Improved Scintillators) are materials that emit...

A newly created nano-architected material (Nano-Architected Material Refracts Light) exhibits a property that previously was just theoretically possible: it can refract light backward, regardless of the angle at which the...

Astronomers have been waiting decades for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which promises how to peer farther into space than ever before. But if humans want to...