Scientists at the University of Groningen, led by Nobel laureate Ben Feringa and colleagues, have created a new porous ...

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Professor James Rondinelli collaborated with IBM to help turn simulations into potential practical chip designs.

History has shown that materials science has long prized symmetry and stability, celebrating crystals whose atoms lock into place like repeating tiles on an infinite floor. It is this type of order ...

To build something fantastic, you need fantastic building blocks. Which is exactly what physicists are creating: new materials, with qualities undreamed of in our current world. Quantum materials ...

As some entities identify new (or at least overlooked) sources to meet the growing demand for rare earth materials, others are looking toward new tools. UK deep-tech company Materials Nexus announced ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered new materials and a new process that could advance the ever-escalating quest to make smaller, faster, and affordable microchips used across modern electronics ...

In 1905, a young American scientist named William Coolidge set to work on an ambitious assignment for his new job at General Electric: creating a better light bulb. The carbon filament used in Thomas ...

Scientists at Rice University and University of Houston have developed an innovative, scalable approach to engineer bacterial cellulose into high-strength, multifunctional materials. Using a spinning ...

An array of 15,000 qubits made from phosphorus and silicon offers an unprecedentedly large platform for simulating quantum ...

Materials suppliers are responding to the intense pressures to improve power, performance, scaling, and cost issues, which follows a long timeline from synthesis to development and high volume ...