A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

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The U.S. Army hopes AI can shorten its hunt for new materials: alloys that make tanks lighter, chemicals that make batteries last longer, even 3D-printers that replace long supply lines with a forward ...

To build something fantastic, you need fantastic building blocks. Which is exactly what physicists are creating: new materials, with qualities undreamed of in our current world. Quantum materials ...

Maryland-based startup InventWood is set to mass-produce the first batches of 'Superwood,' a new material made of modified timber that's stronger than regular barky stems, and even stronger than steel ...

History has shown that materials science has long prized symmetry and stability, celebrating crystals whose atoms lock into place like repeating tiles on an infinite floor. It is this type of order ...

Rapidprint, the first of a new generation of materials made with enzymes and guided by AI, greatly speeds the 3D printing process In a historic first, US company Aether Biomachines is scaling up ...

A research team led by Prof. Yousung Jung of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU) has developed an innovative AI-based technology that uses large ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered new materials and a new process that could advance the ever-escalating quest to make smaller, faster, and affordable microchips used across modern electronics ...

Materials suppliers are responding to the intense pressures to improve power, performance, scaling, and cost issues, which follows a long timeline from synthesis to development and high volume ...

Researchers have developed a new material for sodium-ion batteries, sodium vanadium phosphate, that delivers higher voltage and greater energy capacity than previous sodium-based materials. This ...

This series was created for UL Research Institutes by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. Though his lab in Skokie, Illinois, is thousands of ...