By studying metallic glasses, scientists have revealed that the atoms in glass form a fractal pattern at small scales.
28 September 2015
A new stretchable, transparent conductor can be stretched and released at least 10,000 times without showing signs of fatigue.
25 September 2015
A new ultra-thin invisibility ‘skin’ cloak can conform to the shape of an object and conceal it from detection with visible light.
24 September 2015
A team of physicists has induced stable ferroelectricity in a sheet of strontium titanate only a few nanometers thick.
23 September 2015
A new study of the catalytic behavior of platinum nanoparticles has revealed the importance of the iron oxide they sit on.
22 September 2015
Scientists have developed a unique model for the fast and accurate prediction of novel metal alloy materials for catalysis.
21 September 2015
A new model can predict for the first time which combinations of metals will best form metallic glass.
21 September 2015
A new catalyst could help fuel-efficient automobile engines to run more cleanly and efficiently.
21 September 2015
Simple, new technique creates tiny hollow cages of Pt with walls just a few atoms thick that could be used in catalysis.
21 September 2015Cordelia Sealy
Individual nanoparticles in solution can be resolved in 3D by combining developments in electron microscopy, biology, and computation.
21 September 2015Cordelia Sealy
Materials and Design is feeling refreshed with a new ISSN.
17 September 2015Baptiste Gault
Scientists have announced the first observation of a dynamic Mott transition in a superconductor.
17 September 2015
A novel catalyst made from cheap, abundant materials is almost as effective as platinum at splitting water to produce hydrogen.
17 September 2015
Growing magnetic layers on a 2D crystal can provide highly local control over the preferred direction of the magnetism.
16 September 2015
A new 'electron camera' shows how individual atoms move to form wrinkles in a single layer of molecules.
16 September 2015
A novel material is able to split water by using gold nanoparticles to produce hot electrons.
14 September 2015
A new way to study nanoparticles one at a time has revealed that seemingly identical particles can have very different properties.
10 September 2015
A newly developed polymer material can emit light of different colors in response to a wide variety of external conditions.
9 September 2015
Theoretical calculations suggest that the properties of atom-thick sheets of boron depend on where those atoms are deposited.
7 September 2015
4 September 2015Zara Preston