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Category: Materials Sciences

New Technology Provides Electrifying Insights into How Catalysts Work at the Atomic Level

A woman, left, and a man look at visual data on several monitors with components of an electron microscope nearby.

New Technique Could Help Build Quantum Computers of the Future

A person testing electronics that are part of the experimental setup used for making qubits in silicon in a lab.

Scientists Demonstrate the Potential of Electron Spin to Transmit Quantum Information

Magnon propagation in an antiferromagnet is revealed in these snapshots of spatially resolved transient reflectance, obtained using pairs of laser pulses.

Groundbreaking Microcapacitors Could Power Chips of the Future

Sayeef Salahuddin (left) and Nirmaan Shanker in the lab.

New Insights Lead to Better Next-Gen Solar Cells

Carolin Sutter-Fella (standing), Staff Scientist, and Tim Kodalle, Postdoctoral Researcher, discuss their research at the Advanced Light Source (ALS).

This Alloy is Kinky

A field of pink, purple, cyan, indigo, orange, and yellow shapes packed together, resembling vibrant abstract art.

New Technique Lets Scientists Create Resistance-Free Electron Channels

Berkeley Lab scientists have taken the first atomic-resolution images and demonstrated electrical control of a chiral interface state.

How Scientists Are Accelerating Chemistry Discoveries With Automation

Illustration of a robot arm, vials, a laptop, and a beaker on a desk facing the window.

Scientists Advance Affordable, Sustainable Solution for Flat-Panel Displays and Wearable Tech

Eight 2-centimeter-tall 3D-printed devices fabricated from supramolecular ink that emits blue or white light.

Google DeepMind Adds Nearly 400,000 New Compounds to Berkeley Lab’s Materials Project

Structures of 12 compounds in the Materials Project database.

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