An Australian-US team has devised a way to make a broad class of atomically thin metal oxides, including 2D versions of materials already in use by the electronics industry. Their secret is a room temperature liquid metal.
A new class of exotic materials could find its way into next-generation technologies that efficiently convert waste heat into electrical current according to new research.
Dreams of hypersonic air travel might come true courtesy of a new material.
Researchers develop a material that will potentially revolutionize carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
A newly-developed ultra-thin material tricks the human eye into perceiving highly detailed 3D images without the need for special glasses.
A team of Stanford University engineers are exploring specialized materials to bring concept of quantum computing closer to reality.
With 4D printing, the element of time becomes part of the printing system, resulting in materials that emerge with one shape but then morph into another.
Supersolid is crystalline and superfluid at the same time.
Porous, 3-D forms of graphene developed at MIT can be 10 times as strong as steel but much lighter.
Researchers at Cornell University have engineered a new magnetic material that could potentially make electronics 100 times "greener". Could this be the dawn of room-temperature superconductors?
Science fiction is inching closer to reality with the development of revolutionary self-propelling liquid metals – a critical step towards future elastic electronics.
Scientists at TCD have made groundbreaking advances with a new material that may one day be used to build roll-up television screens.
Borides are among the hardest and most heat-resistant substances on the planet, but their Achilles' Heel, like so many materials', is that they oxidize at high temperatures. Drexel materials scientists fabricate first highly oxidation-resistant boride.
Scientists have developed a new material, called 'rewritable magnetic charge ice,' that permits an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic fields and could pave the way for new computing technologies.
Carbyne, the strongest material on Earth, has now been successfully synthesized for the first time.
