First prototypes of aluminum-ion batteries charge quickly and have the potential for long lifetimes, low cost, and safe operation.
Novel technique accurately distinguishes rare material property linked to improving sensors and computers.
Internal storage compartments release droplets of “healing” liquid to repair damaged materials.
Pre-designed molecular building blocks provide atomic-level control of the width of graphene nanoribbons.
Surprising order found in bundles of protein filaments that move chaotically and form liquid crystals that could led to novel self-healing.
A family of single-phase materials was discovered with coexisting magnetic and electrical properties having potential for electronic applications.
New approach for connecting light-harvesting proteins enhances the current produced by a factor of four.
Oppositely charged polymer chains can be “right-handed,” “left-handed,” or have no “handedness” at all, which controls whether a solid or liquid forms.
Novel experiments measure unusual thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen with a rare oxygen isotope.
First mixed matter/anti-matter probe aims to solve decade-old proton puzzle.
Researchers harvest long-lived isotopes that are difficult or impossible to acquire otherwise.
Study reveals surprising non-uniformity in vanadium dioxide that could one day enable more energy-efficient technologies.
