TU Wien researchers have achieved an important breakthrough in transistor technology: With the support of novel insulators, superior-quality transistors can be built using two-dimensional (2D) materials.
Researchers have reported a novel material that simultaneously retains its properties, like self-healability, high electrical conductivity, and high stretchability, even after being exposed to adverse mechanical strain.
Charge-conducting organic materials could be used in many inspiring applications, including low-cost solar cells and flexible electronic devices.
Diamonds are not merely a girl’s best friend—they are also important components for hard-wearing industrial parts, such as the drill bits used to reach oil and gas deposits underground. But an economical technique to find other appropriate materials to perform the task is on the way.
Scientists at the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), and teammates have described a new phenomenon, known as Valley Acoustoelectric Effect, which occurs in 2D materials, like graphene.
Southwest Research Institute together with The University of Texas at San Antonio is working to gain insights into the vulnerability of additively manufactured materials to hydrogen embrittlement, a general issue that can result in mechanical hardware breaking down and losing functionality.
Electrical engineers at the University of Illinois (U. of I.) have added beta-gallium oxide—the field’s hottest material—to their arsenal, thus overcoming another barrier in the fabrication of high-power semiconductors.
As a robust example of how artificial intelligence (AI) can speed up the discovery of new materials, researchers in Japan have engineered and verified polymers with high thermal conductivity—a property that would be instrumental in heat management, for instance, in the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication technologies.
Merging new theoretical and experimental methods, scientists from the University of Michigan (USA), Kookmin University (South Korea), the University of Konstanz (Germany), and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (Japan) have been successful in measuring and defining the thermal conductance of single-molecule junctions—an important quantity in nanoscale transport phenomena that has until now evaded direct experimental determination.
Conventional magnets are rigid and hard but have contributed in great measure to society and contemporary industry, says materials scientist Thomas Russell of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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