Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory are pushing materials design ...

Why do certain surfaces behave very differently from what theoretical calculations suggest? Scientists long assumed that the ...

Metal cluster molecules are discrete compounds containing multiple metal atoms held together by metal–metal and metal–ligand bonding. They serve as excellent candidates for catalysts, biosensors, and ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Physics professor Moussa N'Gom, Ph.D., and materials science professor Edwin Fohtung, Ph.D., have brought together their respective ...

Researchers in Japan have created some of the world’s smallest semiconducting nanotubes. By growing MoS 2 inside protective ...

"Atomic spray painting” of potassium niobate, a material commonly used in advanced electronics onto a substrate, could enable the tuning of properties of the resulting thin film, according to a new ...

An international team led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an ...

A rare mineral from a 1724 meteorite defies the rules of heat flow, acting like both a crystal and a glass. Thanks to AI and quantum physics, researchers uncovered its bizarre ability to maintain ...

The way has been paved for the development of multi-functional materials for applications such as removing radioactive ...