highly porous polymer foam that mimic bone marrow drives the differentiation of blood-forming stem cells
5 December 2019Cordelia Sealy
Scientists have developed a new approach for making metal-metal composites and porous metals with a ‘bicontinuous’ structure in thin films.
4 December 2019
Scientists have discovered two co-existing phases in a layered, copper-containing crystal that are connected through a quadruple energy well.
28 November 2019
Scientists have found an organic compound that can harvest the 'hot electrons' produced when high-energy photons hit a perovskite semiconductor.
27 November 2019
The electron pairs responsible for the abilities of superconductors can also conduct electricity with some amount of resistance, like metals do.
26 November 2019
Scientists have found that multilayer graphene is stiff when bent a little, but becomes much softer when bent a lot, as the layers slide past each other.
25 November 2019
Magnetic levitation separates chelated drugs
22 November 2019David Bradley
Perovskite materials for use in next generation solar cells and flexible LEDs can be more efficient when their chemical compositions are less ordered.
19 November 2019
By analyzing the atomic structure of scandium fluoride, scientists have discovered why certain crystalline materials shrink when they're heated.
14 November 2019
Using computer modeling and a novel imaging technique, scientists have been able to study the self-assembly of crystalline materials at a high resolution.
12 November 2019
Scientists have found that a broad diffraction pattern can help determine whether graphene and other 2D materials are structurally perfect.
12 November 2019
Using an electron microscope, scientists have uncovered the mechanisms that make nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, so hard and resilient.
7 November 2019
kirigami-inspired design allows graphene-based sensor devices to withstand large strains
6 November 2019Cordelia Sealy
New materials could arise from the unexpected discovery of unusual configurations of oxygen and nitrogen on graphene.
5 November 2019
A new technique for probing the crystalline microstructure of battery cathodes can reveal the short-term order of the ions in these materials.
5 November 2019
Scientists have used a novel technique called lensless microscopy to uncover previously unknown abilities in nickel and barium hexaferrite.
4 November 2019