1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (55+ words) Soluble magnesium composites are emerging as one of the most intriguing materials of the decade, promising tools that dissolve on command downhole in oil and gas wells, and implants that quietly disappear inside the human body once their work is…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (599+ words) Chemical bonds are usually treated as the fixed scaffolding of a material, the framework that determines how atoms sit relative to one another and how electrons move through the resulting structure. Yet in certain classes of matter, the bonds between…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (73+ words) A new comprehensive review published in Advances in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry maps out how scientists are transforming an extraordinary class of atomically thin materials into workhorses for the clean energy transition. Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, or TMDs, are layered…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (743+ words) Metal–organic frameworks, the family of crystalline porous materials built from metal ions and organic linkers, are moving from laboratory curiosities toward two of the most demanding challenges of the modern world: cleaning contaminated water and delivering medicines with precision....

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (55+ words) Topological photonics has spent the past decade borrowing one of the most powerful ideas in modern condensed-matter physics: the notion that certain states of light can be protected from imperfections in much the same way that conducting edge states are…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (668+ words) A long-predicted quirk of quantum materials has finally been caught in action. In an elegant set of experiments described in Nature Physics, researchers report the first demonstration of the Hall effect in a trion fluid, a charged three-particle state that…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (73+ words) Light passing through a carefully engineered nanostructure can behave in ways that ordinary optics never allows. It can cancel itself out at certain frequencies, reinforce itself at others, and produce sharply asymmetric spectral lines that seem to defy the smooth,…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (889+ words) In a development that reads like nanotechnology’s answer to Roman engineering, a team of South Korean researchers has built ultrathin films that borrow the ancient brick-and-mortar architecture of nacre—and the results are extraordinary....

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (78+ words) Functionally graded materials have long promised engineers the ability to tailor stiffness, inertia, and thermal resistance within a single structural component, but a new study pushes that promise further than most. Published in the open-access journal Results in Engineering, the…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (55+ words) A quiet revolution in computational materials science is unfolding at Argonne National Laboratory, where researchers have rebuilt one of the field’s most important software libraries from the ground up to harness the full power of modern graphics processing units. The…...