To promote cooperative, scientific research work by young scientists in the field of functional materials science ...

Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from ...

Rare earth metals power modern tech and clean energy, driving global trade shifts and geopolitical tension as new materials ...

In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice University have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials ...

Caltech professor of chemistry Sandeep Sharma and colleagues from IBM and the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan ...

A pool cleaner and a spongy polymer can turn used and discarded electronic items into a treasure trove of gold.

Microscopic bits of plastic are sloughing off into food and beverages when consumers unwrap the plastic packaging, a new ...

Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic ...

The study of two-dimensional (2D) materials, particularly transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), has become a focal point in materials science due to the ...

Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants from water, release oxygen into a wound or heal themselves after ...

P lenty of research shows that respiratory distress and heart attacks spike in the event of smoke exposure; acute impacts of ...

The motion of snakes has long fascinated humans: they undulate, they sidewind, they crawl, they even fly .Together with herpetologists, researchers ...