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Category: Materials Sciences

How Techno-economic Analysis Can Improve Energy Technologies

photo of Hanna Breunig

To Design Truly Compostable Plastic, Scientists Take Cues From Nature

The Spintronics Technology Revolution Could Be Just a Hopfion Away

Artist’s drawing of characteristic 3D spin texture of a magnetic hopfion. Top layer shows a simulation of the spin structure viewed with surface-sensitive X-PEEM; bottom layer is a simulation of a bulk-sensitive X-ray transmission microscopy image; middle layer – colors indicate the varying direction of the spins showing the winding characteristic. (Credit: Peter Fischer and Frances Hellman/Berkeley Lab)

Century-Old Problem Solved With First-Ever 3D Atomic Imaging of an Amorphous Solid

At left, an experimental 3D atomic model of a metallic glass nanoparticle, 8 nanometers in diameter. Right: The 3D atomic packing of a supercluster within the structure. Differently colored balls represent different types of atoms. (Courtesy of Yao Yang and Jianwei “John” Miao/UCLA)

Actor in a Supporting Role: Substrate Effects on 2D Layers

This Ultrathin Sensor Could Save Your Lungs – and the Climate

VIDEO: Revealing the Nano Big Bang – Scientists Observe the First Milliseconds of Crystal Formation

Molecular Foundry gold crystal

Do You Know the Way to Berkelium, Californium?

berkelium californium heavy elements

New Optical Antennas Could Overcome Data Limits

Topological Antenna

VIDEO: On the Line: Watching Nanoparticles Get in Shape

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A Sponge to Soak Up Carbon Dioxide in the Air

stock photo of coal-fired power plant

A Day in the Half-Life

Colorful data lines converging in the left-mid frame