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A novel type of radiation-detecting scintillator could lead to benefits for medicine, national security, and particle physics.
By examining tiny fragments from one of our nearest cosmic neighbors, scientists uncovered more about the history of our solar system.
In a breakthrough for industrial manufacturing, scientists reproduced one of the world’s toughest materials using 3D printing.
Ultrafast X-ray imaging created with new technology offers insights into improving the energy efficiency of combustion engines.
Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy allows atom-level examination of iron and terbium atoms.
Laser-based additive manufacturing produces high-entropy alloys that are stronger and less likely to fracture.
Understanding defects paves the way for longer lifetimes for sodium-ion batteries -- and lower energy storage costs.
Scientists use a common engineering approach to enhance the superconductivity and induce ferroelectricity in the quantum material strontium titanate.
Experiments examine atomic disorder and dynamics that could explain beneficial optical properties.
X-ray imaging shows that selectively etching surface nickel from a nickel-platinum alloy leaves a chemically active platinum coating.
Interfaces made by stacking certain complex oxide materials can tune the quantum interactions between electrons, yielding exotic spin textures.
New optics-on-a-chip device paves the way to helping characterize fast chemical, material, and biological processes.
