A research team from multiple institutions including the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (CAS), Beijing Computational Science Research Center, and Hangzhou Dianzi University ...

In recent years, van der Waals crystals have evolved from scientific curiosities into a versatile platform for exploring novel quantum phases and unconventional nanophotonic phenomena. Their layered ...

Space is tough on materials. Radiation, UV light, atomic oxygen and sharp temperature swings can degrade metals, polymers and coatings over time. This article looks at the current ways researchers are ...

New research shows 2D carbon materials can store electrical states, reshaping how AI chips manage power and lower electricity ...

The thermometer and the barometer were born in the 1600s and, since then, sensors used for environmental purposes have ...

From hypersonic aircraft to nuclear-powered submarines, many of today’s most advanced defense systems rely on a special class ...

From hypersonic aircraft to nuclear-powered submarines , many of today's most advanced defense systems rely on a special class of materials known ...

It sounds almost like science fiction to think that water could be hundreds of miles below our feet. However, scientists who ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new way to determine atomic structures from nanocrystals previously considered unusable, ...

By freezing a crucial phosphoric acid complex to near absolute zero, scientists uncovered a single, unexpectedly stable structure at the heart of proton transport.

A team at IBM Research has assembled a strange new ring-shaped molecule that bends around like a more complicated Möbius strip ...

I greet March with trepidation. I know the sun is higher, stronger, and warmer, and it can put on a show on a sunny afternoon ...