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Scaling Up Nano for Sustainable Manufacturing

Transmission electron microscope (TEM) images of the new 2D nanosheet as a barrier coating that self-assembles on a variety of substrates: a Teflon beaker and membrane, polyester film, thick and thin silicon films, and glass.

Why Do Batteries Sometimes Catch Fire and Explode?

KIA NIRO electric car is charging on street parking lot of Lindholmen, Gothenburg

Accelerating Sustainable Semiconductors With ‘Multielement Ink’

Silicon wafer reflecting different colors

New Consortium to Make Batteries for Electric Vehicles More Sustainable

An electric vehicle lithium-ion battery pack.

Scientists Theorize a Hidden Phase Transition Between Liquid and a Solid

Collage of two pictures showing 2D material behavior side by side. (Left) Above an onset temperature, a 2D material exhibits normal liquid behavior with all particles similarly mobile (yellow). (Right) Below that temperature, it becomes supercooled, with the onset of rigidity leading to just some mobile particles (yellow) amongst solid-like ‘frozen’ regions (blue).

Making Renewable, Infinitely Recyclable Plastics Using Bacteria

Collage of biotal, a hand holding a plant, and a researcher holding up a recyclable plastic

Watching Molecules Relax in Real Time

Enrico Ridente, a person with short dark hair and a beard wearing a light green collared shirt and black pants, stands next to Eric Haugen, a person with short brown hair wearing a dark collared shirt with jeans. The two are standing in front of a machine in their lab.

Harnessing Machine Learning to Make Complex Systems More Energy Efficient

A staff scientist is photographed at his desk. Next to him is a laptop displaying computer simulations.

Research on Light Emission From Black Phosphorus Hints at New Applications

Two scientists with short black hair prepare some samples on a spectroscopy instrument that is on the right of the frame.

Scientists Create a Longer-Lasting Exciton that May Open New Possibilities in Quantum Information Science

Person with long, brown hair standing in front of scientific instrumentation.

Meet the Autonomous Lab of the Future

Dark-haired scientist in the center of the frame looks toward the camera. They are standing behind the clear glass of an encased automated lab.

Darleane Hoffman and Gabor Somorjai Receive the Enrico Fermi Presidential Award

Collage of two images. From left: Darleane Hoffman, Gabor Somorjai.