The matrix depicts the formation energy – an indicator of stability – of around two million possible compounds. Each pixel corresponds to one of the two million quaternary crystals. Depending on the combination of elements, they display either a...
Wulff shapes of the elements lithium, tin and hafnium taken from Crystalium. Image courtesy of the Materials Virtual Lab at UC San Diego
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with the Materials Project at Lawrence Berkeley...
NYU chemists and their colleagues have developed a method to yield highly detailed, three-dimensional images of the insides of batteries. Shown here is a 3D image of the inside of a lithium cell after charging and showing dendrite growth--deposits...
Researchers move multiple objects simultaneously on a metal plate by playing a carefully chosen melody.Credit: Quan Zhou / Aalto University
Researchers of Aalto University have made a breakthrough in controlling the motion of multiple objects on a vibrating plate with...
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Mechanical Engineering
Researchers found that the thermal conductivity of superatom crystals is directly related to the rotational disorder within those structures. The findings were published in an article in Nature Materials this week.
Carnegie Mellon University's Associate...
The UW–Madison engineers use a solution process to deposit aligned arrays of carbon nanotubes onto 1 inch by 1 inch substrates. The researchers used their scalable and rapid deposition process to coat the entire surface of this substrate with...
Credit: University of Maryland
Fire tornados, or ‘fire whirls,’ pose a powerful and essentially uncontrollable threat to life, property, and the surrounding environment in large urban and wildland fires. But now, a team of researchers in the University of Maryland’s...
An illustration shows one possible way that a highly active iridium oxide layer could form on the surface of a strontium iridium oxide catalyst. After strontium atoms (green spheres) left the top layer through a corrosion process during the...
Electron anions (center green blob) pair up in the center of molecular cages and lower the temperature at which glass forms in C12A7 electride.Credit: Johnson/Sushko/PNNL
Simple cements are everywhere in construction, but researchers want to create novel construction materials to...
Researchers at The University of Akron have discovered that a thin layer of water (blue molecules ) between two charged surfaces composed of surfactants (green molecules) --becomes ice-like, lessening the friction between the two surfaces. Credit: The University of...
An illustration of the Migration Enhance Encapsulated Growth (MEEG) process to stabilize novel wide-bandgap two-dimensional nitride semiconductors that are not naturally occurring. MEEG is facilitated by defects in the graphene lattice that act as pathways for intercalation. When the...
