Strain engineering precisely tunes van der Waals materials' electronic and optical properties for flexible electronics. This ...

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A new impact-based design turns gentle everyday motion into bursts of electricity, greatly boosting the power output of ...

Scientists unveil a new class of lead-free materials that could change how everyday devices generate power from motion. And they achieved it using a soft, hybrid structure made from an unlikely ...

Discover how a new lead-free piezoelectric material could help power sensors, medical implants and flexible electronics in the future.

Scientists have developed a new material that converts motion into electricity with greater efficiency and without using toxic lead ...

Artist’s illustration of gold compressed to ultra-high pressures by laser pulses at the National Ignition Facility.Jacob Long/LLNL Researchers have captured the most detailed look yet at how gold’s ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties.

An intelligent AFM processing framework integrates optimized scanning trajectories, distortion correction, and deep learning segmentation to improve imaging stability, accuracy, and automation. By ...

New characterization of the material's surface reveals how an atom-level rearrangement aids the formation of ice crystals and promotes precipitation ...

The underlying mechanism improving piezoelectricity via interfacial polarization is elucidated through combining the experimental results, molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory ...