For three decades, glass expert Mark Ediger has been studying the basic properties of organic glass to discover new ways to regulate the placement of atoms or molecules and to slow down substance degradation, particularly substances that lack the stiffness of a crystal.
A decade ago, Donald Sadoway, a MIT professor, and his students developed liquid metal batteries, which now appear to be a potential solution to make renewable energy more affordable and practical. These batteries are capable of storing huge amounts of energy, and can balance the fluctuations of production and consumption of power. Ambri, a Cambridge-based startup company, is now in the process of commercializing these liquid metal batteries.
A significantly large magnitude elasto-optic effect has been discovered in ferroelectrics, an unusual class of materials. The discovery of this large magnitude phenomenon has potential for a number of devices that could be used in optical systems.
For the first time, polymer scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered the factors that control the final size and shape of chiral filament bundles that self-assemble into different architectures. The research team, which included Greg Grason, Isaac Bruss and Douglas Hall, along with Justin Barone from Virginia Tech, reported the experimental results that support their novel model. The study has been reported in the current issue of the Nature Materials journal.
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a new processing technique for two-dimensional (2D) electronic devices. This new technique has the potential to reduce the power consumption of the devices, and to increase their efficiency and mechanical flexibility.
Around the world nuclear energy is a vital source of energy. It is needed because it is a clean energy source and reduces the carbon emissions from fossil fuels. However many people believe that the risk of nuclear accidents does not outweigh the advantages of using nuclear energy. Michael Tonks, assistant professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Penn State and director of the Microstructure Science and Engineering Laboratory at Penn State is involved with three projects through the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). These projects aim to discover new materials for nuclear fuel, to make the existing light water reactors (LWRs) safer.
Scientists have successfully integrated hypothetical calculations and sophisticated in-situ microscopy to reveal critical clues about the properties of an advanced energy storage material for use in batteries and supercapacitors. The study was conducted by researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Department of Energy (DOE).
Penn State researchers have provided a roadmap for a strategy to build the fundamental knowledge needed to speed up the development and application of additive manufacturing materials over the next decade.
Researchers from Aix Marseille Université, based in Marseille, France, have devised a method that enables real-time and in-situ monitoring of physical processes that take place at materials’ surfaces at the atomic level.
Scientists from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have achieved single-particle resolution, for the first time, in the investigation of surface premelting phenomena.
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