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Advancing Data Center Efficiency with High Speed Micro-LED Optical Links

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.

31 Oct 2026

Asymmetric Copper Sites Speed Silicon Carbide Polishing at Neutral pH

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.

30 Oct 2026

Proposed Theory Unlocks the Complex Internal Real-Space Textures of Polarons

Polarons are fundamental quasiparticles in solids. (Quasiparticles are excitations that act like particles despite their complex many-body interactions with their environment.)

30 Oct 2026

DOE Facility Automates Nanoscale Material Characterization Using Electron Microscopy

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.

30 Oct 2026

Voltage-Driven Blisters Give 2D Nanochannels Their Ionic Memory

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.

29 Oct 2026

H.E.L Group Introduces the ChemSCAN+ System for Fully Independent Parallel Catalyst Screening

H.E.L Group, a specialist in scientific instrumentation for chemical research, process development and safety testing, announces the ChemSCAN+, an advanced parallel reactor platform designed to provide greater flexibility and automation in catalyst screening and reaction optimization.

From H.E.L Group 28 Oct 2026

H.E.L Group Introduces the TSu+, a Thermal Hazard Screening and Vent Characterization System

H.E.L Group, a specialist in scientific instrumentation for chemical research, process development and safety testing, announces the TSu+, a bench-top process safety platform combining thermal and pressure hazard screening with open-cell vent characterization to support safer chemical process development.

From H.E.L Group 28 Oct 2026

Light-Triggered Adhesive Helps Neural Electrodes Stay Put, Then Release On Command

Researchers developed bPDMS@Fe, a self-healing silicone elastomer that adheres strongly to tissue and other surfaces, then weakens under UV light for controlled removal. In mice, a nine-channel cortical electrode using the material recorded seizure-related brain activity on days 7 and 14, while separate histology experiments tracked tissue responses through day 28.

28 Oct 2026