materials-science

An autonomous AI platform developed at Cornell University analyzes electron microscopy images in two to five minutes, performing crystal structure identification, property prediction, and literature cross-referencing in a single workflow.

Two back-to-back Nature papers show that removing excess iron atoms from iron telluride unlocks superconductivity at 13.5 Kelvin, overturning a longstanding assumption and suggesting similar hidden quantum states may exist in other correlated materials.

A study published in Science shows lithium dendrites snap like glass rather than bending, challenging decades of assumptions that solid electrolytes alone could block them.

Researchers achieved reversible switching between graphene polytypes at 30-nanometer scale using sub-nanonewton forces and sub-femtojoule energy, opening a path to slidetronic memory and neuromorphic computing.

A Hiroshima University team used a hot-wire laser technique to 3D print defect-free tungsten carbide-cobalt exceeding 1,400 HV hardness, opening a path to cheaper, less wasteful production of cutting tools and industrial components.

A KIST-IAE team engineered a tungsten diselenide catalyst that achieved over 550 stable cycles in lithium-air batteries, outperforming conventional catalysts and advancing a technology with ten times the energy density of lithium-ion.

A team at the Texas Center for Superconductivity used a pressure-quenching technique on a mercury-based copper-oxide ceramic to achieve a transition temperature of 151 K at ambient pressure, surpassing a record that had stood since 1993.

Isolated indium atoms on hafnium oxide outperform conventional nanoparticle catalysts in CO2-to-methanol synthesis, opening a path to fossil-free chemical production.

Stockholm University physicists used ultra-fast X-ray pulses to confirm a second critical point in supercooled water at -63 degrees Celsius and 1,000 atmospheres, explaining why water behaves unlike any other liquid.

Kyushu University and JGU Mainz researchers use a molybdenum-based spin-flip emitter to surpass the one-photon-one-electron limit, reaching 130% quantum yield with a theoretical ceiling of 200%.

A team led by North Carolina State University has demonstrated that magnetizing patterned elastic polymer sheets turns their chaotic snapping behavior into repeatable, sequential unfolding, boosting kinetic energy absorption by 30 percent.

A Kyoto University team applied three types of shear strain to ultra-thin crystals of the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4 and found virtually no change in its transition temperature, ruling out several leading theoretical models and opening new questions about the material's pairing symmetry.