. Scientific Frontline: Material Science
Showing posts with label Material Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Material Science. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Soft Fibers that Move with Electricity

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Electrically driven 'soft yarn' (soft fiber actuator) realized by thermal drawing. Image Credit: ©Tohoku University Scientific Front...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

Material previously thought to be quantum is actually new, nonquantum state of matter

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Research scientist Bin Gal Photo Credit: Courtesy of Rice University Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : The No...

Tiny thermometers offer on-chip temperature monitoring for processors

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A team including Anirban Chowdhury, left, and Dipanjan Sen, right, developed an incredibly tiny thermometer that can be integrated directly ...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

Non-destructive battery testing using special nuclear magnetic resonance techniques

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Conceptual artwork depicting the ZULF-NMR measurement of a pouch-cell battery (center) using quantum sensors such as optically pumped magnet...

Polymers that crawl like worms: How materials can develop direction without being told where to go

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Jan Smrek, PhD Photo Credit: © Sophie Hanak Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Entropic Tug of War in Polymers...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Electrically Detecting 'Liquid-Crystal' Phase Promises Attractive Advancements in Magnets

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Crystal and electronic structures for PT-symmetric antiferromagnet SrMnBi2 with Dirac electrons  Image Credit: ©Hideaki Sakai Scientific Fro...
Monday, March 2, 2026

SwRI develops magnetostrictive probe for safer, more cost-effective storage tank inspections

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created a magnetostrictive (MST) probe that uses guided wave technology to detect corrosion in stora...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

Scientists unlock a massive new ‘color palette’ for biomedical research by synthesizing non-natural amino acids

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Peptides have found use in over 80 drugs worldwide since insulin was first synthesized in the 1920s. Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scie...

Holistically Improving the Process of Producing Hydrogen from Water

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Schematic illustration of the auxiliary-driving effect, highlighting its role in accelerating the HER process. Image Credit: ©Hao Li et al. ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

A 'smart fluid' you can reconfigure with temperature

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Temperature and particle concentration control self-assembly into distinct phases. Image Credit: Ghosh et al., Matter (2026) Scientific Fron...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Rheology: In-Depth Description

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Rheology is the branch of physics and materials science that studies the deformation and flow of matter, primarily in liquids, soft solids, ...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

UrFU Physicists Discovered Snowflake Has Complex & Asymmetrical Shape

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The calculations of physicists are fundamental, but they will be useful for metallurgists. Photo Credit: Rodion Narudinov Scientific Frontli...
Monday, February 9, 2026

New Route into 2D Materials: Research Team Produces Ultra-Clean Mxenes with Outstanding Electrical Performance

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The image combines a model derived from a scanning electron microscopy image (left) with a snippet of the underlying crystal structure of a ...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Reshaping gold leads to new electronic and optical properties

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In the laser laboratory, Tlek Tapani and Nicolò Maccaferri are testing how porous structures enable gold to absorb more light energy than or...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Microelectronics: Researchers identify parent compound for chiral materials

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary The Core Concept : Researchers have identi...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

UCLA study sets new benchmarks for 3D, atom-by-atom maps of disordered materials

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Image Credit: Courtesy of UCLA Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary Main Discovery : A new computational framework establis...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Honeycomb lattice sweetens quantum materials development

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In a honeycomb lattice of potassium cobalt arsenate, cobalt spins (red and blue arrows) couple and align. Potassium, arsenic and oxygen are ...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

A Nanomaterial Flex — MXene Electrodes Help OLED Display Technology Shine, While Bending and Stretching

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Researchers from Drexel University and Seoul National University have created organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that could improve mobil...

Self-Healing Composite Can Make Airplane, Automobile and Spacecraft Components Last for Centuries

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3D printed thermoplastic healing agent (blue overlay) on glass-fiber reinforcement (left); infrared thermograph during in situ self-healing ...
Monday, January 12, 2026

X-raying auditory ossicles – a new technique reveals structures in record time

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Scientists at PSI were able to observe the local collagen structures in an ossicle by scanning it with an X-ray beam. The different colours ...