For decades, relaxor ferroelectrics have powered everything from medical ultrasounds to sonar systems, yet their inner atomic ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm is reshaping how scientists approach some of the most complex materials known, enabling ...

Materials called relaxor ferroelectrics have been used for decades in technologies like ultrasounds, microphones, and sonar ...

Topological interlocking materials and structures represent an innovative design approach in which individual, often geometrically complex, elements are arranged to mutually constrain one another.

In materials science, if you can understand the "texture" of a material—how its internal patterns form and shift—you can ...

Researchers have pioneered a new technique called X-ray linear dichroic orientation tomography, which probes the orientation of a material's building blocks at the nanoscale in three-dimensions. First ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The materials we interact with every day—whether they are steel, glass, or rubber—have properties like strength, flexibility, or brittleness that stem from their chemical ...

A team of researchers at Rice University has engineered a new version of a well-known multiferroic that exhibits orders of ...

A shielding layer can do a lot of jobs badly if you ask too much of it. It can block electromagnetic interference but not ...

A comprehensive review of laser additive manufacturing (LAM) of metallic lattice structures demonstrates how advanced design strategies, processing control, and material innovations significantly ...