For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...

For a long time, material development has focused on enhancing performance and reducing costs. Efforts have been directed toward making products lighter, tougher, better insulated, more beautiful, ...

An international team of scientists, including researchers from Loughborough University, has developed a method to dramatically speed up the discovery and design of advanced materials. The study, ...

Advances in artificial intelligence promise to help chemical engineers discover complex new materials. These materials could ...

Research into materials science illustrates how an invisibility cloak would actually work—and what the science means for ...

Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking discovery: a material capable of bending light in unprecedented ways. This advancement opens up possibilities for innovations in optics, including superlenses ...

Researchers have developed a new way to transform food waste into high-performance materials that can store and regulate heat ...

Scientists have developed artificial heterostructures made of freestanding 2D and 3D membranes that have an energy density up to 19 times higher than commercially available capacitors. Electrostatic ...

Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the core ...

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 ...

The integration of self-driving laboratories and advanced automation software is revolutionising the fields of chemistry and materials science. By harnessing the power of robotics, artificial ...

The undergraduate minor in materials science and engineering provides students with a foundation of engineering, science and mathematics to address challenges that impact public health, safety and ...