New polymer units created by UD, Penn researchers could enable materials breakthroughs From tires to clothes to shampoo, many ubiquitous products are made with polymers, large chai... Read more
New polymer films conduct heat instead of trapping it Polymers are usually the go-to material for thermal insulation. Think of a silicone oven mitt, or a Styrofoam coffee cup, both... Read more
University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have made a material that can transition from an electricity-transmitting metal to a nonconducting insulating material without changing... Read more
A team of MU researchers are applying one of the first uses of artificial intelligence principles to the field of materials science Discovering how atoms — such as a single layer o... Read more
Computational simulations predict new class of carbides that could disrupt industries from machinery to aerospace Materials scientists at Duke University and UC San Diego have disc... Read more
Algorithm take months, not years, to find material for improved energy conversion n even the most fuel-efficient cars, about 60 percent of the total energy of gasoline is lost thro... Read more
A team including several Carnegie scientists has developed a form of ultrastrong, lightweight carbon that is also elastic and electrically conductive. A material with such a unique... Read more
A team led by Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, has discovered a new phase-transition optical material and demonstrated novel devices that... Read more
Allowing electrons to flow at speeds near to light speed with a practically non-existent energy consumption level In the month of April 2014, a project in which Pedro L. Galindo, U... Read more