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Biaxial Strain Reshapes Bilayer Nickelates Through a Distinct Electronic Pathway

Compression tunes bilayer nickelates without forcing the high-pressure phase, revealing an alternative route to the orbital and band conditions linked to superconductivity.

6 Aug 2026

SPECTRO Introduces New, Improved SPECTROSCOUT kt Portable ED-XRF Analyzer

SPECTRO Analytical Instruments has introduced the new, improved SPECTROSCOUT kt portable ED-XRF analyzer for rapid, reliable analysis of precious metals and alloys on the spot.

From SPECTRO Analytical Instruments GmbH 5 Aug 2026

AnalytiChem Launches CONOSTAN® GC Standards Range for Fuel Testing

AnalytiChem has introduced a new range of CONOSTAN® Gas Chromatography (GC) standards for fuel testing.

From AnalytiChem 5 Aug 2026

Molecular Velcro Helps Cement Recover Strength Across Six Damage Cycles

Researchers developed a cement composite containing 0.13 wt% polymer that migrates toward cracks under humid conditions and forms reversible bonds with fractured surfaces. The material recovered up to 62% of its compressive strength and 59% of its direct tensile strength, with compressive recovery continuing across six damage-healing cycles.

3 Aug 2026

Sulfur-Selenium Glass Bends, Stretches, and Self-Heals While Transmitting Infrared Light

Researchers created an S60Se40 chalcogenide glass that combined a 0.62-to-21-µm transmission window with ultralow stiffness, 647% tensile strain, approximately 80% strain recovery, and room-temperature self-healing.

2 Aug 2026

Review Maps Five Routes to High-Performance PFAS-Free Membranes

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.

29 Jul 2026

A Project Develops “Cool” Façades Expected to Reduce Summer Building Temperatures by up to 2 °C

Every summer, the façades, roofs and pavements of cities absorb a large share of solar radiation and act as heat accumulators.

From AIMPLAS 29 Jul 2026

AI Transformers Revolutionize Complex Fluid Dynamics in Next-Gen Reactors

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.

29 Jul 2026

Electron-Tuned Interfaces Build Stronger Metal-Polymer Bonds Without Adhesives

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%.

26 Jul 2026

Generative AI Speeds 3D Energetic Material Design for Custom Combustion

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.

26 Jul 2026

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