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Category: Materials Sciences

Scientists Uncover Surprising New Clues to Exotic Superconductors’ Superpowers

Artist's impression of a magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor cooled with liquid nitrogen.

How X-Rays Can Make Better Batteries

Artist's rendering of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries with a midnight blue background and electric blue outlines surrounding 3 batteries

A Day in the Half-Life

Collage of a black and white finger holding a microchip on top of a colorful background of painterly strokes

With a Little Help, New Optical Material Assembles Itself

Technique Tunes Into Graphene Nanoribbons’ Electronic Potential

New Smart-Roof Coating Enables Year-Round Energy Savings

Gloved hand holding a petri dish of radiative coating

These Tiny Liquid Robots Never Run Out of Juice as Long as They Have Food

liquid robots

How Can Next-Gen Computer Chips Reduce Our Carbon Footprint?

Berkeley Lab Honored with Three R&D 100 Awards

Green stock image of logic and memory chip

Physicists Snap First Image of an ‘Electron Ice’

This scanning tunneling microscope image of a graphene sheet reveals that a Wigner crystal – a honeycomb arrangement of electrons, like an electron ice – has formed inside a layered structure underneath. (Image by Hongyuan Li and Shaowei Li, courtesy of Nature)

Skyrmions Could Be Future of Computing; X-Ray Experiments Reveal Their Secrets

skyrmions

New Technique Paves the Way for Perfect Perovskites