Materials Science

Machine learning replicates the secrets of composites

3D printing of composite parts makes counterfeiting easier

Oxygen switches on efficient catalysts for electrochemistry

The movement of oxygen in a perovskite material covered in iron nanoparticles can switch it between highly catalytic and less catalytic states.

The 2020 Microelectronic Engineering / Micro and Nanoengineering (Elsevier journals) - Young Investigator Awards and Lectureships

AI finds cheap and stable solid electrolyte materials

Scientists have used artificial intelligence to identify a novel class of cheap, stable solid electrolyte materials made from lithium, boron and sulfur.

Self-assembling anticancer drugs

Self-assembling anticancer drugs

NICE coating lights up medical devices

NIR dye-polymer fluorescent coating helps surgeons visualize medical devices in the body

Sounds like a new type of superconductor

By studying how strontium ruthenate responds to sound waves, researchers have discovered it may be a new type of superconductor known as g-wave.

New low-cost production method can produce 'spoonful' of 2D material

Researchers have developed a low-cost method for fabricating thin nanoribbons of molybdenum disulfide at a large scale.

Researchers develop exciting new polymerization process

By combining low-energy photons to produce high-energy excited states, researchers have developed a novel polymerization process.

Sharp corners make aluminum nanoparticles more catalytic

Researchers have found that aluminum nanoparticles with sharper corners are better able to utilize light to catalyze chemical reactions.