Finding new materials with useful properties is a primary goal for materials scientists, and it's central to improving ...

The mechanical strength and toughness of engineering materials are often mutually exclusive, posing challenges for material ...

Researchers discovered that twisting 2D materials improves toughness while preserving strength, paving the way for durable ...

The AI-driven framework of optimizing the mechanical property of 2D-PHS. Two-dimensional patterned hollow structures (2D-PHS) are an advanced class of metamaterials known for their unique ...

Researchers are creating new moiré materials at the nanometer scale using advanced DNA nanotechnology. DNA moiré ...

What are the different types of CAD? Computer-aided design, or CAD, began in the late 1960s and early in the 1970s and was developed internally by big aerospace and car companies ...

Chemists have discovered that pointy gold tetrahedrons self-assemble into 2D chiral superlattices. The structures could be useful metamaterials. Tetrahedron-shaped nanoparticles are interesting ...

US researchers have designed a 2D solar cell based on TMDCs that may exceed by far the efficiency of this device typology, which usually doesn't exceed 6%. The novelty of this cell consists of its ...