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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2024Nuclear fusion has long been heralded as the future of clean, large-scale energy production, offering the potential to generate power without carbon emissions, using [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2024 In electronic technologies, critical material properties change in response to stimuli like voltage or current. Scientists strive to understand these changes at various [...]

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 27, 2024 A minor adjustment can lead to significant advancements, as demonstrated by researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). The team developed a [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2024 Metal-halide perovskites have rapidly advanced in the past decade, demonstrating superior performance to silicon in converting light to electric current. Simulations on TACC's [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2024 Stainless steel owes its popularity to the metal chromium, which reacts with oxygen to form a protective layer. Scientists and engineers now aim [...]

Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 12, 2024 Researchers from the Laboratory for Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPFL in Lausanne, part of the NCCR MARVEL, have used computational methods to [...]

Dortmund, Germany (SPX) Feb 02, 2024In a groundbreaking study recently published in Nature Physics, a research team from TU Dortmund University has made a significant leap forward in the development [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Dec 12, 2023 Two-dimensional materials, which are only a few atoms thick, can exhibit some incredible properties, such as the ability to carry electric charge extremely efficiently, [...]

Edinburgh UK (SPX) Dec 18, 2023 Scientists from the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with their counterparts from Germany and Sweden, have unveiled a groundbreaking discovery in the field of [...]

Dresden, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2023 In the world of materials science, discoveries that challenge established norms often lead to groundbreaking innovations. Such is the case with a fascinating development [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Sep 19, 2023 By mining data from X-ray images, researchers at MIT, Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator, and the Toyota Research Institute have made significant new discoveries [...]

Qingdao, China (SPX) Sep 19, 2023 Researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have recently tweaked the material of [...]

Golden CO (SPX) Jul 19, 2023 A bifacial perovskite solar cell, which allows sunlight to reach both sides of the device, holds the potential to produce higher energy yields at [...]

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 18, 2023 A groundbreaking finding from a group of Australian researchers unveils that proton radiation damage in low-earth orbiting perovskite solar cells can be fully restored [...]

Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Jul 12, 2023 In research that could lead to a new age in illumination, researchers from Japan and Germany have developed an eco-friendly light-emitting electrochemical cells using [...]

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 08, 2023 In two separate studies, researchers present novel methods that enable the fabrication of high-performance perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells with power conversion efficiencies exceeding 30%. [...]

Blacksburg VA (SPX) Jun 28, 2023 Fascination surrounding spaceflight and rockets is at an all-time high. Sites near launchpads draw crowds of spectators, eager to witness the flash of fire [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Jun 23, 2023 Using novel materials that have been widely studied as potential new solar photovoltaics, researchers at MIT have shown that nanoparticles of these materials can [...]

Pennsylvania PA (SPX) Jun 07, 2023 When it comes to supplying energy for space exploration and settlements, commonly available solar cells made of silicon or gallium arsenide are still too [...]

Beijing, China (SPX) May 19, 2023 Solar cells are a critical component to the transition to renewable energy sources, and enhanced power conversion efficiency (PCE), or amount of power captured [...]

Cleveland OH (SPX) May 19, 2023 Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown was hoping to see anything but mustard yellow. When the NASA research electrical engineer clicked open the photo of a small [...]

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 12, 2023 As 3D printed rockets, car parts, and even homes begin to hit the market on Earth, L3Harris Technologies aims to leverage the [...]

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2023 NASA has demonstrated a breakthrough in 3D printable high-temperature materials that could lead to stronger, more durable parts for airplanes and spacecraft. A team [...]

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 26, 2023 The world needs cheap and powerful batteries that can store sustainably produced electricity from wind or sunlight so that we can use it whenever [...]

Manchester UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2023 In a paper published in Nature this week (13 Apr 2023), researchers from The University of Manchester report record-high magnetoresistance that appears in graphene [...]

Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2023 The development of new information and communication technologies poses new challenges to scientists and industry. Designing new quantum materials - whose exceptional properties stem [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 21, 2023 In work that could lead to important new physics with potentially heady applications in computer science and more, MIT scientists have shown that two [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Jan 09, 2023 The ancient Romans were masters of engineering, constructing vast networks of roads, aqueducts, ports, and massive buildings, whose remains have survived for two millennia. [...]

Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 04, 2023 'For the perovskite film, there are some factors influencing the intrinsic material stability,' said paper author Qi Chen, professor from Beijing Key Laboratory of [...]

Ames IA (SPX) Nov 16, 2022 A team of scientists from the Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory developed a new characterization tool that allowed them to gain unique insight [...]

Notre Dame, IN (SPX) Nov 09, 2022 Yanliang Zhang, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, and collaborators Alexander Dowling and Tengfei Luo have [...]

Yekaterinburg, Russia (SPX) Oct 28, 2022 A new type of material for one of the solar cells was proposed by specialists of the Ural Federal University (UrFU) and the Institute [...]

Durham NC (SPX) Oct 13, 2022 A group of scientists led by Duke University have engineered a new class of materials capable of producing tunable plasmonic properties while withstanding incredibly [...]

Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 'We put nanotubes inside of bacteria,' says Professor Ardemis Boghossian at EPFL's School of Basic Sciences. 'That doesn't sound very exciting on the surface, [...]

Wright Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Sep 02, 2022 The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Nano Electronic Materials Branch, part of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, used heat flow experiments [...]

Daegu, South Korea (SPX) Aug 15, 2022 The DGIST (President Kuk Yang) Thin Film Solar Cell Research Center (Chairman Gang Jin-gyu) worked with Professor Kim Se-yoon of the Department of [...]

Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and their collaborators have used DNA to overcome a nearly insurmountable obstacle to engineer materials [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 When it comes to graphene, it appears that superconductivity runs in the family. Graphene is a single-atom-thin material that can be exfoliated from the [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Jul 17, 2022Perovskites hold promise for creating solar panels that could be easily deposited onto most surfaces, including flexible and textured ones. These materials would also be [...]

Durham NC (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 By turning a traditional lab-based fabrication process upside down, researchers at Duke University have greatly expanded the abilities of light-manipulating metasurfaces while also making [...]

Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 If you switch a bit in the memory of a computer and then switch it back again, you have restored the original state. There [...]

Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jun 21, 2022 Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) have developed tiny translucent slides capable of producing two very different images by manipulating the direction in [...]

Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Jun 10, 2022 University of Queensland scientists have cracked a problem that's frustrated chemists and physicists for years, potentially leading to a new age of powerful, efficient, [...]

Munster, Germany (SPX) May 27, 2022 In the search for new active agents in medicine, molecules whose atoms are linked in rings are becoming increasingly important. Such ring systems have [...]

Villigen, Switzerland (SPX) May 20, 2022 Researchers from PSI's Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials group together with scientists from Beijing Normal University have solved a puzzle at the forefront of research [...]

Hampton VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2022 NASA innovators recently developed a new metal alloy using a 3D printing process that dramatically improves the strength and durability of the components and [...]

Sendai, Japan (SPX) Apr 05, 2022 Scientists in Japan have found a common substance that can reversibly and rapidly store and release relatively large amounts of low-grade heat without decomposing. [...]

Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 Lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells and many other devices depend on the high mobility of ions in order to work properly. But there a large [...]

Boston MA (SPX) Feb 10, 2022 Engineers from MIT and Kyushu University in Japan have demonstrated for the first time how light can be used to significantly improve the performance [...]

Wollongong, Australia (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 In a landmark discovery, FLEET University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers have realised the non-contact manipulation of liquid metal. The metals can be controlled to [...]