Materials

Researchers used an ultra-fast electron diffraction (UED) camera that detects tiny atomic movements to observe, for the first time, a quantum electronic device in operation. The device is a custom-designed miniature switch made of vanadium…

NIMS and Osaka University researchers succeeded in fabricating a nickel single crystal with only a very few crystalline defects, irradiating nickel powder with a large-radius, flat-top laser beam. The technique may be useful in fabricating…

When researchers pulled sheets of single carbon atoms away from graphite to make graphene--the exfoliation technique paved the way for a wide range of two-dimensional materials with distinct electrical and physical characteristics for the…

Theoretical scientists used topological mathematics and machine learning to identify a hidden relationship between nano-scale structures and thermal conductivity in amorphous silicon. A study describing their work appeared in the Journal of…

Researchers at the NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Smart Materials Lab published in the journal Nature Communications that organic crystals can serve as efficient and sustainable energy conversion materials for advanced technologies such as robotics…

There’s been a push for the last decade to synthesize graphyne, but success to date was limited. New research from the University of Colorado Boulder published in Nature Synthesis, however, has the potential to open new possibilities for…

The stretchiness of films and gels enables wearables, soft robotics, and biocompatible tissue. These materials, however, can break them without warning. Researchers from the American Chemical Society have designed a compound with "wings"…

Today, much of the 5G infrastructure is repurposed 4G equipment at lower frequency bands. Transition to 5G is based on the adoption of higher frequencies which have primarily been categorized into sub-6 GHz and mmWave (> 20 GHz) bands.…

In a recent study, researchers synthesized 2D cuprous Iodide stabilized in a graphene sandwich—and the material does not exist in normal laboratory conditions. The new material was born using the large interlayer spacing of oxidized…

Here, Samir Jaber, engineering content writer at materials search engine Matmatch, examines how materials testing could make or break humanity’s future on Mars.