A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

Every summer, our cities burn energy to keep us cool. The same happens in winter with the increasing demand for heating.

Electric vehicles promise low running costs and cleaner streets, yet many drivers discover their range shrinking long before ...

Using a symmetry-guided design strategy, a research team led by Prof. Junwei Liu from HKUST has predicted 612 monolayer ...

The crypto lobby is becoming convinced their coveted bill can’t pass Congress next year. Just how crucial is it?

‘Crystal structure prediction is, after years of hard work by many, many groups, finally reaching the point where it’s going to have large impacts in organic materials.’ So says Gregory Beran, at the ...

Study: Observing growth of metallic crystals inside liquid metal solvents. Gallium in a petri dish. Image Credit: Philip Ritchie/The University of Sydney Researchers at the University of Sydney have ...

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at CU Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that ...

The brilliantly shiny diamond is more than just pretty; it's one of the hardest minerals on Earth, with a name derived from the Greek word adámas, meaning unbreakable. Scientists have now engineered a ...

Making a new material is one thing, explaining how you did it is another. Materials engineering Ph.D. candidate Jerry Howard excels at both. Howard developed a new “recipe” for making metallic glass ...

Systemic, structural change has always been a part of the perspective of the Greater Good Science Center. In a 2022 essay, editor Jeremy Adam Smith defines structural forces in the context of our work ...