MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing
Assembled from tiny identical pieces, the wing could enable lighter, more energy-efficient aircraft designs.
A team of engineers has built and tested a radically new...
Dow completes separation from DowDuPont
Becomes a more focused and streamlined materials science company
Launches with global scale and leading positions in three attractive consumer-driven segments: packaging, infrastructure...
Researchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
The color of a material can often tell you something about how it handles heat. Think of wearing a black shirt on a sweltering...
Strain can drive chemistry in a photovoltaic material
A unique combination of imaging tools and atomic-level simulations has allowed a team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to...
Oxide materials may advance electronic device development
Materials scientists at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have made a breakthrough discovery in the study of oxide heterostructures, substances that...
Scientists discover new mechanism for information storage in one atom
Scientists at Radboud University discovered a new mechanism for magnetic storage of information in the smallest unit of matter: a single atom. While the...
Single molecule self-forms into a lattice that can self-heal, store gases
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan has developed a material made from just a single molecule that self-forms into a...
Team finds Wigner crystal—not Mott insulator—in ‘magic-angle’ graphene
Recently, a team of scientists led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a huge stir in the field of...
Scientists solve the golden puzzle of calaverite
Scientists from Russia and Germany have shed light on the crystalline structure of calaverite, foretelling the existence of a new gold compound previously unknown...
Graphene bilayer provides efficient transport and control of spins
University of Groningen physicists in collaboration with a theoretical physics group from Universität Regensburg have built an optimized bilayer graphene device that displays both...
