Materials

Scientists develop solution processable ferroelectric nylonsCredit: MPI-P As the microelectronic industry is now shifting toward wearable electronic gadgets and electronic (e-)textiles, the comprising electronic materials, such as…

The three-dimensional quantum Hall effect was predicted more than 30 years ago, but has not been observed until now by the Singapore University of Technology and Design together with international researchersCredit: Wang Guoyan & He…

Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Machine learning algorithms can sometimes do a better job with a little help from human expertise, at least in the field of materials science. In many specialized areas of science, engineering…

Invisible ink on antique Nile papyrus revealed by multiple methodsCredit: HZB The first thing that catches an archaeologist's eye on the small piece of papyrus from Elephantine Island on the Nile is the apparently blank patch. Researchers…

Research team develops a new principle to generate terahertz radiationCredit: HZDR / Juniks The "Landau-level laser" is an exciting concept for an unusual radiation source. It has the potential to efficiently generate so-called…

A group of researchers from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen have figured out how to use deep learning to speed up the analysis of gas chromatographic dataCredit: Morten Vormsborg Christiansen Gas…

Efforts will harness artificial intelligence and machine learning The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $27.6 million in funding over the next three years for targeted research in data science to accelerate discovery in chemistry…

Credit: Angelo Di Bernardo Starting on 1 October 2019, the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award winner Dr Angelo Di Bernardo will contribute to the research carried out at the University of Konstanz in the area of Nano and Materials Science…

A group of researchers led by Skoltech Professor Pavel Troshin studied coordination polymers, a class of compounds with scarcely explored applications in metal-ion batteries, and demonstrated their possible future use in energy storage…

Counterintuitive discovery is likely applicable to other 2D materials Want to make a super strong material from nano-scale building blocks? Start with the highest quality building blocks, right? Wrong -- at least when working with…