Scientists are exploring many ways to use light rather than heat to drive chemical reactions more efficiently, which could significantly reduce waste, energy consumption, and reliance on nonrenewable ...

Photocurable 3D printing, widely used for everything from dental treatments to complex prototype manufacturing, is fast and ...

Researchers have made a discovery that changes what we know about light and materials. They found that engineered achiral (symmetric) materials, called achiral plasmonic metasurfaces, can absorb light ...

Scientists have found a way to make atoms dance with light, quite literally. In certain crystals, vibrations called phonons ...

Researchers have for the first time measured the true properties of individual MXene flakes—an exciting new nanomaterial with ...

When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi—the "father of metal-organic frameworks," or MOFs—along with Susumu ...

"We can identify different materials ... that we could not normally see." Researchers make incredible breakthrough that could revolutionize recycling: 'Allows us to see what human eyes ... can't' ...

Atoms in crystalline solids sometimes vibrate in unison, giving rise to phonons. Because these collective vibrations set the pace for how heat and energy move through materials, they play a central ...

Scientists have found a new use for AI, which shouldn't come as much of a surprise these days. This time, they used AI to design an ultra-light yet incredibly strong new material. This AI-created ...

Researchers have demonstrated a material for next generation dynamic windows, which would allow building occupants to switch their windows between three modes: transparent, or 'normal' windows; ...

Windows are pretty basic necessities for letting in light and heat, but you don’t always want both at once. Now engineers at North Carolina State University have developed a new material that allows ...

Researchers have demonstrated a material for next generation dynamic windows, which would allow building occupants to switch their windows between three modes: transparent, or “normal” windows; ...