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Scientists Unlock Ultra-Thin Ferroelectric Performance to Optimize Microchip Efficiency

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered that an ultra-thin version of a common material displays an electrical property that could make it a game-changer in the push toward energy-efficient microelectronic devices.

7 Aug 2026

A Project will Transform Vehicle Weight with Innovative Ultralight, Recyclable Panels

Reducing weight, improving energy efficiency, changing composite- production processes and advancing towards more sustainable materials have become some of the transport sector’s main challenges.

From AIMPLAS 3 Aug 2026

New Open-Source Software Tracks Energy Transfer Inside Tiny Materials

The tool could help researchers design denser optical memory, study information loss in quantum systems and better understand how materials behave.

31 Jul 2026

Researchers Use Molten Salts to Turn Greenhouse Gas Into Technology

Graphite, the carbon center of your humble #2 pencil, is also an essential component in technologies such as batteries, smartphones, laptops, and industrial power equipment. Today, nearly all of this critical mineral has to be mined and processed and, in the United States, imported.

31 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

Africa’s “Tesla Paradox” Shows How EV Supply Chains Shift Costs to Mineral-Rich Nations

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.

27 Jul 2026

Materials-Driven Fusion Approach Opens New Era for Nuclear Science

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.

25 Jul 2026

COF-Polymer Electrolyte Extends Sodium Battery Life Under Fast Charging

Researchers embedded a sulfonate-functionalized covalent organic framework in a fluorinated polymer electrolyte, creating ordered pathways that increased sodium-ion conductivity to 1.2 mS cm?¹ at 30 °C. The composite supported long-lived sodium-metal cycling and retained 87.3% capacity after 488 cycles in a 1 Ah solid-state pouch cell.

21 Jul 2026

Researchers Discover Magnesium Oxide Protective Coatings for Advanced Batteries

The success of a promising class of next-generation batteries may hinge on something almost impossibly thin: a coating just a nanometer thick - roughly 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.

17 Jul 2026