The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has partnered with Amazon Web Services to explore and validate some of the most advanced artificial intelligence tools that could help operators of the nation's electric grid respond more effectively to severe weather, rising electricity demand and cyber or physical threats.
Researchers analyzed four fine coal-waste samples from Spain, Poland, and Slovenia and found total rare-earth element concentrations of approximately 160-222 ppm. Detailed testing of the Spanish La Matona sample showed that conventional physical separation and exploratory leaching produced little enrichment or extraction, limiting immediate recovery under the tested conditions.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
30 Jul 2026
Today, 3D Systems announced that Elmet Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Elmet Group ("Elmet"), is deploying the DMP Flex 350 Triple metal additive manufacturing machine (laser powder bed fusion) for the rapid production of advanced aerospace parts for hypersonic vehicles.
Asbury Advanced Materials ("Asbury") today announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Graphit Kropfmühl GmbH ("GK") from AMG, marking a significant milestone in the company's continued evolution as a global advanced materials platform.
The review compares phase inversion, film stretching, melt extrusion, sacrificial templating, and electrospinning as routes to PFAS-free waterproof breathable membranes. It finds that no single method maximizes waterproofness, breathability, durability, and scalability, highlighting the need for application-specific design and standardized testing.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
29 Jul 2026
Every summer, the façades, roofs and pavements of cities absorb a large share of solar radiation and act as heat accumulators.
Using cargo recovered from one of Australia’s most infamous shipwrecks, new Curtin University-led research has revealed how surprisingly sophisticated global supply chains helped source and transport construction materials in the 17th century.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made "forever chemicals."
If you've used a large language model such as ChatGPT, you've interacted with a transformer, the neural network architecture that powers many generative artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Researchers proposed Quantum Phononic Links that confine acoustic phonons within strained germanium quantum wells to connect spatially separated hole spin qubits. Simulations and theoretical estimates suggest that the CMOS-compatible architecture could provide frequency-selective coupling over long on-chip distances, though experiments must verify its performance.
By Dr. Noopur Jain
28 Jul 2026
As semiconductor devices continue to become smaller and more complex, accurate thin-film metrology plays an increasingly important role in wafer process development and advanced device manufacturing.
Researchers define Africa’s “Tesla Paradox” as the divide between the clean-energy promise of electric vehicles and the economic, environmental, and political burdens concentrated in mineral-rich African countries. The authors argue that limited local processing and weak governance restrict value capture while shifting ecological and social risks onto mining communities.
By Muhammad Osama
27 Jul 2026
Researchers showed that strong metal-polymer bonding depends on electron donation from polymer functional groups into vacant orbitals on oxidized metal surfaces. By engineering oxygen vacancies and carboxyl groups, they increased the tensile-shear strength of magnesium alloy/CFRTP joints by more than 400%.
By Muhammad Osama
26 Jul 2026
Researchers developed a hybrid generative AI framework that designs 3D energetic material grain structures to match user-defined pressure-time combustion profiles. By combining physics-informed geometry modeling, diffusion-based generation, and gradient-based refinement, the approach reduced design time while maintaining strong simulation-based performance matching.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
26 Jul 2026
Fusion at high temperatures powers the sun and, if harnessed, could provide a potential source of energy here on Earth. But controlling fusion reactions has other benefits.