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materials
Mushrooms’ microscopic filaments provide a blueprint for better materials
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fungi have been around for many millions of years, with the incremental process of evolution honing and improving their...
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Neural networks speed up search for solid-state battery materials for safer electric cars with extended range
Machine learning speeds up a key stage in the search for materials for protective electrolyte coatings for solid-state batteries, a promising energy storage...
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Next-generation materials offer integrated solutions to water treatment challenges
A magnetic sea urchin-shaped material (developed by KIST) is placed inside the pipe where wastewater flows in, and magnets are used on the...
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Accelerating the arrival of fault-tolerant quantum computers with next-generation materials
Joseph P. Carroll supervising operations at one of Davis Group Andreev scanning tunneling microscope (STM). Credit: Catherine Dawson, Davis Group. A research study...
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How innovative smart materials make it out of the lab and into our cities
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The construction industry accounts for approximately 37% of global CO₂ emissions. Traditional materials like cement, steel, and bricks contribute...
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Simple heating step boosts pressure sensitivity in semiconductor materials eightfold
Piezoelectric devices are everywhere, and their market is steadily growing. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59179-2 Stronger cell phone signals, more accurate sensors...
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Robotic hand uses compliant materials to grasp objects with human-like dexterity
ADAPT robotic hand (Adaptive Dexterous Anthropomorphic Programmable sTiffness). Credit: CREATE Lab EPFL A robotic hand developed at EPFL can pick up 24 different...
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Design strategy can mitigate internal cracks in next-generation cathode materials
Figure 1. A schematic image, illustrating a design strategy to enhance the mechanical integrity of single-crystal LNMO cathodes by extending solid-solution behavior. Combined...
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Automated microscope tracks directional heat flow in thermoelectric materials for green energy
High-resolution thermal diffusivity area maps of Bi2Te3. Illustration of the results using the M4PP setup to map the thermal diffusivity of the Bi2Te3...
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