In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful new properties. Today, atomic-scale defects are carefully introduced during ...

While the concept of quantum computing has been discussed for more than 40 years, only recently have experiments indicated that a practical quantum computer may be possible. Recent developments in ...

A Johns Hopkins University engineer has developed a specialized AI tool that could do for materials scientists what ChatGPT has done for coders and writers. The new system, called ChatGPT Materials ...

Electrochemical deposition, or electroplating, is a common industrial technique that coats materials to improve corrosion ...

The arrangement of electrons in matter, known as the electronic structure, plays a crucial role in fundamental but also applied research such as drug design and energy storage. However, the lack of a ...

IBM and an international team of researchers have used a quantum computer to accurately simulate the electronic structure of a real molecule, a task that many scientists believed was still out of ...

A team of researchers created Morpho, an open-source programmable environment that enables researchers and engineers to conduct shape optimization and design for soft materials. Applications can be ...

A technical paper titled “Field-Effect Transistors based on 2-D Materials: a Modeling Perspective” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich. “Two-dimensional (2D) materials are particularly ...

A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials' mechanical strength, heat transfer, and ...