A team of researchers has identified atomic distortions that may be linked with high-temperature superconductivity in a ...
Superconductivity—the ability of a material to conduct electricity without any energy loss to heat—enables highly efficient, ...
A new breakthrough is transforming MXenes—ultra-thin, high-tech materials—into something far more powerful and precise.
Crystalline alloys used in motors today lose some energy through heat, but glass-like metals could solve this engineering ...
Perovskite crystals can dramatically and reversibly change shape when hit with light, a behavior not seen in conventional ...
Star-shaped vanadium hydroxide nanoparticles show that changing a material's shape from sheets to stars shifts its energy ...
Repeated impacts can create minerals that lock in magnetic signals long after the Moon’s global field has disappeared.
Rice scientists have created a new type of 2D semiconductor that comes closer than ever to a “perfect” crystal.
Researchers in the United States have unlocked secrets of high-temperature superconductors. Researchers at the ...
Researchers have discovered that perovskite crystals can rapidly and reversibly change shape when exposed to light, revealing ...
Rice University scientists and collaborators have created a new type of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor that comes closer ...