Superconductivity—the ability of a material to conduct electricity without any energy loss to heat—enables highly efficient, ...

A team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has identified a rare, ...

Topological interlocking materials and structures represent an innovative design approach in which individual, often geometrically complex, elements are arranged to mutually constrain one another.

Researchers have revisited a long-known material and uncovered a way to dramatically enhance its performance by altering its ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The materials we interact with every day—whether they are steel, glass, or rubber—have properties like strength, flexibility, or brittleness that stem from their chemical ...

Chemists have developed a generative AI model that can make it much easier to determine the structures of powdered crystal materials. The prediction model could help researchers characterize materials ...

Materials are fundamental to every energy technology. Solar panels, batteries, catalysts, fuel cells, LEDs, insulation, electrodes, in all of these applications the performance, cost, and durability ...

Engineers developed a way to quickly test metamaterial architectures and their resilience to supersonic impacts. They plan to use it to identify new metamaterial designs that could form the basis for ...

Mesoporous materials are a class of nanomaterials characterized by their highly ordered porous structure with pore sizes ranging from 2 to 50 nanometers. These materials possess large surface areas, ...