Carbon fibre materials are renowned for their exceptional strength-to-weight ratio, high stiffness and resistance to chemical and thermal degradation. The evolution of carbon fibre production has led ...

Professors Horacio Espinosa and Chad Mirkin implemented a novel approach to design and assemble nanoscale materials using the principles that underpin colloidal crystal engineering with DNA. The ...

Innovations in High-Performance Materials It feels like every day there’s some new material promising to do things ...

An introductory course focused on the new and existing materials that are crucial for mitigating worldwide anthropogenic CO2 emissions and associated greenhouse gases. Emphasis will be placed on how ...

A new microscopy method has allowed researchers to detect tiny changes in the atomic-level architecture of crystalline materials -- like advanced steels for ship hulls and custom silicon for ...

Materials informatics sits at the intersection of experimental science, computation, and data analytics. The aim is simple: use data and models to make discovering, designing, and deploying new ...

In science and engineering, impressive technical feats sometimes draw on the arts—such is the case for a new study in Nature. First author Ahyoung Kim started taking pottery classes during the second ...

Next-generation technology requires next-generation materials that can be tailored to exact mission requirements. Additive ...