Advancing X-ray science to ever greater heights in the 21st century is why a dedicated group of Arizona State University scientists continue to push and make a series of new firsts at their one-of-a-kind, compact X-ray science facility, called ASU X-Beams.
A reaction on a single electrode can tell scientists a remarkable amount about the chemical nature and number of analytes involved.
Crystals in the lab aren't gemstones. They're materials built from atoms arranged in precise, repeating patterns. That atomic order lets crystals absorb light, move charge and convert energy, enabling technologies from LEDs and solar cells to the sensors in everyday cameras.
A collaboration between the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering and the University of Notre Dame has broken the world record for optical switching speed in quantum well LEDs.
Penn State has received a $1 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a workforce pipeline for the critical minerals and materials used in batteries, magnets and other advanced technologies.
Indiana University has entered a new partnership with imec, a global research and development center for advanced semiconductor technologies.
Researchers engineered asymmetric copper sites in Cu/ZIF-8 to drive Fenton-like hydroxyl radical generation at neutral pH, addressing a key chemical limitation in polishing 4H-silicon carbide. In CMP tests, the catalyst raised the material removal rate to 62.4 nm min?¹ while producing subnanometre surface roughness and low residual dissolved copper.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
30 Oct 2026
Smaller particles are harder to measure and can pose greater biological risks. Fine and ultrafine airborne particles can penetrate deep into the lungs, and some can reach the bloodstream. Understanding their chemistry demands spatial resolution, sensitivity and accurate targeting.
Hoenle Adhesives is pleased to announce the launch of Vitralit® MASK E-20131, a new UV- and visible light-curable masking material designed to simplify temporary protection processes in demanding applications.
Polarons are fundamental quasiparticles in solids. (Quasiparticles are excitations that act like particles despite their complex many-body interactions with their environment.)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the paradigm of scientific research, moving beyond simply analyzing research data to proposing experimental conditions, learning from experimental results, and designing subsequent experiments. Particularly in materials science and chemistry, where vast amounts of data are generated and analyzed, the self-driving laboratory (SDL)--which integrates materials data, AI, and experimental automation--is emerging as a promising approach to future scientific research.
Some of the most important discoveries in materials science and structural biology come down to a simple question: where, exactly, are the atoms- The arrangement of atoms determines nearly everything about how a material behaves in the real world — how strong it is, how it conducts electricity, how a battery stores energy, or how a drug binds to a cell.
Researchers directly imaged voltage-driven blistering in two-dimensional nanochannels and linked those structural changes to ionic conductance, hysteresis, and memory. Their experiments and modeling show that osmotic and electrostatic forces can drive different blister responses, helping explain why nominally similar nanofluidic devices behave differently.
By Akshatha Chandrashekar
29 Oct 2026
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory is joining DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) in a new national consortium aimed at accelerating the transition of energy storage innovations from discovery to domestic manufacturing.
A joint research team led by Dr. Eun-Ho Sohn and Dr. Ju Hyeon Kim of the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT, President Seokmin Shin) and Prof. Jin Woo Bae of the School of Energy, Materials and Chemical Engineering at the Korea University of Technology and Education (KOREATECH, President Kil-Sang Yoo) has developed self-powered fibers using a simple spray-coating process that blends two different polymers, eliminating the need for high-voltage equipment.