Material Science & Technology

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...

New applications in energy, defense, and telecommunications could receive a boost after a team from The University of Texas at Austin created a new type of Multifunctional "nanocrystalline gel"—a gel...

A nanomaterials-engineered penetrating seal developed by Washington State University researchers is able to better protect concrete from moisture and salt – the two most damaging factors in crumbling concrete infrastructure...

Hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel, leaves nothing but water when consumed. Nanodiamonds help in Hydrogen purification. Many countries view hydrogen as a way to a zero-carbon future, but switching to a...

The researchers found that a Single silver-gallium system can produce distinct patterns such as particles or bundle-like structures of a Ag2Ga compound. The team dissolved a small amount of metals...

For quantum computers to surpass their classical counterparts in speed and capacity, their qubits—which are superconducting circuits that can exist in an infinite combination of binary states—need to be on...

How do you integrate as much as possible of the 2D material graphene into a limited space? By producing it not on a flat surface, but on a 3D nanostructure....

Doctoral candidate Nina Andrejevic combines spectroscopy and machine learning (Energy-Efficient materials machine learning) techniques to identify novel and valuable properties in matter. Born into a family of architects, Nina Andrejevic...