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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have used DNA's self-assembling properties to engineer intricate moiré superlattices at the nanometer ...

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

Two-dimensional (2D) energy materials have outstanding physical and chemical properties in contrast to their bulk counterparts. This is particularly true for charge storage devices such as lithium-ion ...

In an effort to understand how and why 2D interfaces take on the structures they do, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to visualize the ...

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 ...