Tag: Materials

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 ...

Illuminate previously unseen properties of materials RPI Researchers Join Expertise at the Frontier of Light and Materials Research. Edwin Fohtung and Moussa N'Gom illuminate previously unseen properties of materials. Researchers with ...

AI helps chemists develop tougher plastics  Researchers created polymers that are more resistant to tearing by incorporating stress-responsive molecules identified by a machine-learning model. A new strategy for strengthening polymer ...

Left-handed or right-handed? Nanostructures identified by light How do left-handed and right-handed molecules differ? Researchers at ETH Zurich are using a new imaging method to visualise what was previously only ...

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 ...

Stabilising fleeting quantum states with light Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. However, these excited states decay rapidly once the excitation is removed, ...

Emergence Quantum: a commercial quantum research 'special ops' team What David Reilly's Microsoft Quantum team did next.by Beth Miller, Washington University in St. Louis. A first-of-its-kind research and development company ...

The Mysterious Chemical World Inside Nanopores by Beth Miller, Washington University in St. Louis Natural and engineered systems have a whole world of chemistry inside their tiny pores — known ...

Stability solution brings unique form of carbon closer to practical application by Jamie Oberdick Carbyne, a one-dimensional chain of carbon atoms, is incredibly strong for being so thin, making it ...