(Nanowerk Spotlight) Chemical reactions power everything from industrial manufacturing to clean energy production, but their efficiency depends critically on catalysts - materials that speed up ...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have found a new way to change how a metal behaves electronically by ...
Material science research into 2D materials has accelerated since the discovery of graphene in 2004. Graphene is a 2D sheet of carbon atoms, arranged in a way that each carbon atom is bonded to three ...
A research team led by Professor Jungwon Park from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University College of Engineering has developed a novel technique for ...
A research team from Seoul National University College of Engineering has developed a technology to observe atomic structural changes of nanoparticles in three dimensions. Their study, which resolves ...
Electron diffraction is a powerful analytical technique used to study the atomic structure of materials. It involves the interaction of a beam of electrons with a crystalline sample, resulting in a ...
Researchers from MIT and collaborating institutions have, for the first time, directly measured the ...
Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange themselves into chains of pentagons, decagons and other shapes to ...
Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar ...
A metal alloy composed of niobium, tantalum, titanium, and hafnium has shocked materials scientists with its impressive strength and toughness at both extremely hot and cold temperatures, a ...