Materials Science News
May 6, 2025
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Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new machine learning algorithm that excels at interpreting optical spectra, potentially enabling faster and more precise medical diagnoses and sample ...
May 2, 2025 — Lithium-ion batteries have been a staple in device manufacturing for years, but the liquid electrolytes they rely on to function are quite unstable, leading to fire hazards and safety concerns. Now, researchers are pursuing a reliable alternative ...
May 1, 2025 — A research team has developed a new technique to rapidly and accurately determine the charge state of electrons confined in semiconductor quantum dots -- fundamental components of quantum computing systems. The method is based on Bayesian inference, ...
May 1, 2025 — Scientists have expanded on a longstanding model governing the mechanics behind slip banding, a process that produces strain marks in metals under compression, gaining a new understanding of the behavior of advanced materials critical to energy ...
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Apr. 30, 2025 — Lightweight lithium metal is a heavy-hitting critical mineral, serving as the key ingredient in the rechargeable batteries that power phones, ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — A more efficient and environmentally friendly approach to extracting rare earth elements that power everything from electric vehicle batteries to smartphones could increase domestic supply and ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — Researchers have developed silk iron microparticles (SIMPs) -- magnetic, biodegradable carriers designed to deliver therapies directly to disease sites like aneurysms or tumors. The particles are ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — As global demand for electric vehicles and renewable energy storage surges, so does the need for affordable and sustainable battery technologies. A ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — A new study turns long-held conventional wisdom about a certain type of polymer on its head, greatly expanding understanding of how some of ...
May 1, 2025 — A team has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a natural process that pushes electrons into their surroundings instead of breathing on oxygen. The findings could ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Metal oxyhydroxides are nanoparticles with wide industrial applications, but determining their exact structure is often challenging. Recently, a research team has developed an advanced imaging method ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with less energy. That's according to a new study that shows a hybrid zinc ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated extremely strong nonlinear light-matter coupling in a quantum circuit. Stronger coupling enables faster quantum readout and operations, ultimately improving the accuracy of ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the ...
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Apr. 29, 2025 — Researchers have shown they can inexpensively nanomanufacture silk microneedles to precisely fortify crops, monitor plant health, and detect soil ...
Apr. 29, 2025 — For the first time, researchers can study the microstructures inside metals, ceramics and rocks with X-rays in a standard laboratory without needing to travel to a particle accelerator, according to ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — With more than 181.5 billion tons of wood produced globally each year, a new method could revolutionize how we build sustainably. By infusing red oak with ferrihydrite using a simple, low-cost ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Crystals -- from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds -- don't always grow in a straightforward way. Researchers have now captured this journey from amorphous blob to orderly ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new catalyst design capable of pushing the projected fuel cell catalyst lifespans to 200,000 hours. The research marks a significant step toward the widespread adoption ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — Researchers found a strategy to create catalysts that make the production of hydrogen for clean fuel more efficient and ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — Historically, small molecule drugs have been precisely designed down to the atomic scale. Considering their relatively large complex structures, nanomedicines have lagged behind. Researchers argue ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new therapy that can be injected intravenously right after a heart attack to promote healing and prevent heart failure. The therapy both prompts the immune system to ...
Apr. 25, 2025 — A recent study has unraveled some of the secrets concealed within the entangled web of quantum ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — A study describes a new method of recycling silicone waste (caulk, sealants, gels, adhesives, cosmetics, etc.). It has the potential to significantly reduce the sector's environmental impacts. ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — An international team has explored how in future aerial robots could process construction materials precisely in the air -- an approach with great potential for difficult-to-access locations or work ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Plant-based seafood alternatives should have similar flavors, textures and nutritional content to the foods they mimic. And recreating the properties of fried calamari rings, which have a neutral ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Using their novel FRESH 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for printing of soft living cells and tissues, a lab has built a tissue model entirely out of ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — In a breakthrough that blends ancient design with modern materials science, researchers have developed a new class of ceramic structures that can bend under pressure -- without ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — A research team has developed an innovative single-step laser printing technique to accelerate the manufacturing of lithium-sulfur batteries. Integrating the commonly time-consuming active materials ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Engineers have fabricated a metamaterial that is not only strong but also stretchy. Their new method could enable stretchable ceramics, glass, and metals, for tear-proof textiles or stretchy ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — A bacteria killing coating created by scientists has been used in trials of a new paint that can be applied to a range of surfaces to effectively kill bacteria and viruses, including difficult to ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Conservators and museum technicians protect precious archaeological metal objects, such as tools and weapons, with clear coatings, leaving preserved and unobstructed views of these detailed ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — If you haven't heard of a tardigrade before, prepare to be wowed. These clumsy, eight-legged creatures, nicknamed water bears, are about half a millimeter long and can survive practically ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Engineers developed a technique to grow and peel ultrathin 'skins' of electronic material that could be used in applications such as night-vision eyewear and autonomous driving in foggy ...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
- Will the Vegetables of the Future Be Fortified Using Tiny Needles?
- Synchrotron in a Closet: Bringing Powerful 3D X-Ray Microscopy to Smaller Labs
Monday, April 28, 2025
- 'Wood You Believe It?' Engineers Fortify Wood With Eco-Friendly Nano-Iron
- Scientists Observe How Blobs Form Crystals and Discover a New Crystal Type
- Breakthrough Extends Fuel Cell Lifespan Beyond 200,000 Hours, Paving the Way for Clean Long-Haul Trucking
Friday, April 25, 2025
- Affordable Hydrogen Fuel Production Using Surface Reconstruction Strategy
- Structure Dictates Effectiveness, Safety in Nanomedicine
- This Injected Protein-Like Polymer Helps Tissues Heal After a Heart Attack
- Physicists Uncover Hidden Order in the Quantum World Through Deconfined Quantum Critical Points
Thursday, April 24, 2025
- A New Recycling Process for Silicones Could Greatly Reduce the Sector's Environmental Impacts
- Flying Robots Unlock New Horizons in Construction
- Plant-Based Calamari That Rivals Real Seafood in Texture
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- FRESH Bioprinting Brings Vascularized Tissue One Step Closer
- Engineer Reinvents Ceramics With Origami-Inspired 3D Printing
- From Beam to Battery: Single-Step Laser Printing Supercharges High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
- Engineers Print Synthetic 'metamaterials' That Are Both Strong and Stretchy
- Bacteria Killing Material Creates Superbug Busting Paint
- Some Protective Resin Coatings May Damage Metal Artifacts
- Scientists Have Found a Way to 'tattoo' Tardigrades
- New Electronic 'skin' Could Enable Lightweight Night-Vision Glasses
- Material? Robot? It's a Metabot
- Crystal Clear Design for High-Performance Flexible Thermoelectric Semiconductor
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Light Fields With Extraordinary Structure: Plasmonic Skyrmion Bags
- Transformable Flat-to-Shape Objects Created Using Sewing Technology
- A Colloidal Crystal Model for Controlled Polymorph Selection
- Trash Talk: As Plastic Use Soars, Researchers Examine Biodegradable Solutions
Monday, April 21, 2025
- It's a Quantum Zoo out There, and Scientists Just Found a Dozen New 'species'
- Harmful Microplastics Infiltrating Drinking Water
Friday, April 18, 2025
- 'Faster Charging, Longer Lifespan': Next-Generation Battery Breakthrough
- Pushing Boundaries: Detecting the Anomalous Hall Effect Without Magnetization in a New Class of Materials
- Scientists Uncover Quantum Surprise: Matter Mediates Ultrastrong Coupling Between Light Particles
Thursday, April 17, 2025
- New Hybrid Materials as Efficient Thermoelectrics
- A New Take on the Abilities of Hydrogen Binding Energy for Use in Single Atom Catalysts
- Green Hydrogen: A Cage Structured Material Transforms Into a Performant Catalyst
- Researchers Demonstrate New Class of Quantum Materials That Are Both Metallic and One-Dimensional
- A Cool Fix for Hot Chips: Advanced Thermal Management Technology for Electronic Devices
- Curved Neutron Beams Could Deliver Benefits Straight to Industry
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- A New Super Metal Stands Strong, No Matter the Temperature
- A Step Toward Harnessing Clean Energy from Falling Rainwater
- Novel Machine Learning Model Can Predict Material Failure Before It Happens
- Living Fungus-Based Building Material Repairs Itself for Over a Month
- Bite-Sized Chunks of Chicken With the Texture of Whole Meat Can Be Grown in the Lab
- 'Cosmic Radio' Could Find Dark Matter in 15 Years
- Scientists Create a 'brilliantly Luminous' Nanoscale Chemical Tool
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
- Artificial Skin from Hydrogels
- Machine Learning Unlocks Superior Performance in Light-Driven Organic Crystals
- Corn Leads to Improved Performance in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Monday, April 14, 2025
- Physics Reveals the Optimal Roof Ratios for Energy Efficiency
- New Method for Detecting Nanoplastics in Body Fluids
- New Tool for Cutting DNA: Promising Prospects for Biotechnology
- Cooler Faster Better: Engineers Uncover a New Way to Stop Electronics from Overheating
- New, Non-Toxic Synthesis Method for 'miracle Material' MXene
Friday, April 11, 2025
- Reshaping Quantum Dots Production Through Continuous Flow and Sustainable Technologies
- Researchers Watch a Live Catalytic Event in Real Time
- Scientists Observe Exotic Quantum Phase Once Thought Impossible
- A Fluid Battery That Can Take Any Shape
- A New Era in Materials Science: Antiferromagnetic Quasicrystals Unveiled
- Illuminating the Twist: Light-Driven Inversion of Supramolecular Chirality
- Scalable Graphene Membranes: A Leap for Carbon Capture
Thursday, April 10, 2025
- AI Tool Set to Speed Quest for Advanced Superconductors
- Rolling Particles Make Suspensions More Fluid
- A Milestone for Laser Plasma Acceleration
- New Research Examines How Nanoscopic Ripples Affect Material Properties
- Impact of Processing on Biochemical Composition of Plant-Based Products Revealed
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Nanoplastics in Soil: How Soil Type and pH Influence Mobility
- Starch-Based Microplastics Could Cause Health Risks in Mice
- Serendipitous Discovery Could Lead to More Efficient Catalysts
- 3D-Printed Open-Source Robot Offers Accessible Solution for Materials Synthesis
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
- Researchers Watch a Single Catalytic Grain Do Work in Real Time
- Tiny, Soft Robot Flexes Its Potential as a Life Saver
Monday, April 7, 2025
- Researchers Discover Why Plastic Sheds Dangerous Fragments
- Rare Crystal Shape Found to Increase the Strength of 3D-Printed Metal
- Making the Physics of Glass More Transparent
Friday, April 4, 2025
- Mechanistic Understanding Could Enable Better Fast-Charging Batteries
- Researchers Improve Chemical Reaction That Underpins Products from Foods to Fuels
- Exception to Laws of Thermodynamics
- Polymers With Flawed Fillers Boost Heat Transfer in Plastics
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Physicists Uncover Electronic Interactions Mediated Via Spin Waves
- MIT Engineers Develop a Way to Mass Manufacture Nanoparticles That Deliver Cancer Drugs Directly to Tumors
- Carbon Capture Technology to Produce Clean Fuel from Air
- Electrochemical Method Supports Nitrogen Circular Economy
- Researchers Recycle Wind Turbine Blade Materials to Make Improved Plastics
- Carbon Capture Could Become Practical With Scalable, Affordable Materials
- Solar Cells Made of Moon Dust Could Power Future Space Exploration
- Runaway Battery Improves Safety
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Smartphone Photo Sensors Transformed Into an Unprecedented Resolution Antimatter Camera
- Study Tracks Chromium Chemistry in Irradiated Molten Salts
- Metamaterials: Highly Twisted Rods Store Large Amounts of Energy
- A New Wave in Ultrafast Magnetic Control
- Biodegradable Fake Fingernails Make Manicures More Sustainable
- Researchers Use 'smart' Bomb Therapy to Destroy Breast Cancer
- Electrochemical Process Separates Valuable Industrial Chemicals from Animal Waste
- Scientists Merge Two 'impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Enhancing Light Control With Complex Frequency Excitations
- Metasurfaces: Bilayer Device Can Control Many Forms of Polarized Light
- Diagnosing a Dud May Lead to a Better Battery
- We Know Nanoplastics Are a Threat -- This New Tool Can Help Us Figure out Just How Bad They Are
- An Efficient Self-Assembly Process for Advanced Self-Healing Materials
- A Step Toward Plant-Based Gelatin