Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

Finding the right materials for a project isn’t easy. You have to factor in a lot of considerations. Take, for instance, building a house. Not only do you need the materials of that house to be able ...

Dhruv Shenai investigates how machine learning and lab automation are transforming materials science at Cambridge ...

More than ten years ago, researchers at Rice University led by materials scientist Boris Yakobson predicted that boron atoms would cling too tightly to copper to form borophene, a flexible, metallic ...

The University of Iowa has been awarded $1.5 million to advance materials science research by leveraging various materials’ ...

The new method can determine crystal structures underlying experimental data thus far difficult to analyze. A joint research team led by Yuuki Kubo and Shiji Tsuneyuki of the University of Tokyo has ...

An introductory course focused on the new and existing materials that are crucial for mitigating worldwide anthropogenic CO2 emissions and associated greenhouse gases. Emphasis will be placed on how ...

A new machine learning tool developed at Princeton will enable researchers to sift through trillions of design options to predict which metal organic framework will be useful in laboratories or ...

The arrangement of electrons in matter, known as the electronic structure, plays a crucial role in fundamental but also applied research such as drug design and energy storage. However, the lack of a ...

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into any 3D structure you'd like. Reading time 2 minutes There’s a very thin ...