Carbon forms the graphite in pencils, the diamonds in jewelry and the molecules that make up every living thing. But under ...

Mesoporous materials are a class of nanomaterials characterized by their highly ordered porous structure with pore sizes ranging from 2 to 50 nanometers. These materials possess large surface areas, ...

Researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and flexibility. These ...

A squishy material made of thin layers might help make your future devices faster and more energy efficient. This new hybrid material, known as β-ZnTe(en)₀.₅, changes its internal structure in ...

Chemists have developed a generative AI model that can make it much easier to determine the structures of powdered crystal materials. The prediction model could help researchers characterize materials ...

Most solid materials we rely on, from steel, to plastics and ceramics, are designed to have specific properties. Whether a ...

How do modern military structures survive extreme conditions? Discover the materials and engineering methods behind ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a surprising mathematical connection between two areas of condensed ...

Scientists used a new, universal method to create a variety of 3D metallic and semiconductor nanostructures, including this structure revealed by an electron microscope. The scale bar represents one ...

A bizarre "Rule of Four" has been identified in the basic structure of the majority of inorganic materials—and scientists are stumped as to why. The pattern is found in the so-called "unit cell" of ...