Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Dual-Color Pixel Innovation by A*STAR Researchers

Through precise structural control, A*STAR researchers have encoded a single pixel with two distinct colors and have used this capability to generate a…

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Helium 'balloons' offer new path to control complex materials

The team's technique, published in Physical Review Letters, advances the understanding and use of complex oxide materials that boast unusual properties such as…

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ABattReLife: Understanding Electric Vehicle Battery Aging

During a period of three years the project partners studied in five project steps what causes aging of electric vehicle batteries and what could stop the aging…

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Biomanufacturing CdS Quantum Dots: Eco-Friendly Innovation

A team of Lehigh University engineers have demonstrated a bacterial method for the low-cost, environmentally friendly synthesis of aqueous soluble quantum dot…

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Glass Transition Unveiled: Insights from Tokyo Research

A University of Tokyo research group has demonstrated through computer simulations that the enhancement of fluctuations in a liquid’s structure plays an…

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Lasers Create Nanoscale Geometric Grids for Electronics

Down at the nanoscale, where objects span just billionths of a meter, the size and shape of a material can often have surprising and powerful electronic and…

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Inexpensive High-Temp SQUIDs for Future Electronics

High-transition-temperature superconductivity within copper-oxide materials was discovered in 1986, and quickly set into motion an intense research effort by…

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New One-Atom-Thick Diode Exhibits Surprising Quantum Behavior

The quantum transport effect, called negative differential resistance (NDR), was observed when a voltage was applied to structures made of one-atom-thick…

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Innovative Breakthrough: 300 km/s Paves Way for New Electronics

It may be significantly easier to design electronic components in future. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids have discovered…

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UCLA Chemists Innovate Solar Energy Storage Inspired by Nature

The new design is inspired by the way that plants generate energy through photosynthesis.

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Scientists Capture Shock Waves in Diamonds with X-Ray Pulses

Researchers have used ultra-short pulses of X-rays to film shock waves in diamonds. The study headed by DESY scientists opens up new possibilities for studying…

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KAIST Unveils First Flexible Phase-Change RAM for Wearables

Phase change random access memory (PRAM) is one of the strongest candidates for next-generation nonvolatile memory for flexible and wearable electronics. In…

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World’s Thinnest Light Bulb – Graphene Gets Bright!

Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James Hone’s group at Columbia Engineering, a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National…

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Cells Get Star Treatment: A*STAR’s Innovations in Healing

Tissues and organs in the body are sometimes damaged to such an extent that they require artificial support to heal. Now, A*STAR researchers have used…

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New Material Aims to Solve Heat Issues in Computer Chips

The heat that builds up in the shuttling of current in electronics is an important obstacle to packing more computing power into ever-smaller devices: Excess…

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Exploring Cerium Dioxide Nanocrystals for Effective Catalysis

When it comes to reducing the toxins released by burning gasoline, coal, or other such fuels, the catalyst needs to be reliable. Yet, a promising catalyst,…

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