Materials Science
Berkeley Lab Researchers Find Plasmonic Resonances in Semiconductor Nanocrystals With its promise of superfast computers and...
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Scientists at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry have pioneered a new chemical mapping method that provides unprecedented insight into materials at the nanoscale...
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Even as royalty set diamonds into crowns and rings, engineers lusted after the gems for different reasons: diamonds are stronger than any other natural material and are excellent electrical insulators and heat conductors...
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Stress, fatigue and heavy loads aren't always negative elements of work - in fact, they are what attracted Jennifer Forrester to the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Forrester, a research scientist working in the...
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43 researchers nationwide chosen for the Air Force’s Young Investigator Research Program this year.
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President Barack Obama finally got to see his atoms, courtesy of Intel and FEI's Titan transmission electron microscope. The President visited Intel Hillsboro's Ronler Acres facility as part of a West Coast technology tour wrapping Friday Feb. 18.
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) differ from multiwalled carbon nanotubes by their electric properties.
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Michael Kessler of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory is researching biorenewable polymers capable of healing themselves as they degrade and crack. The self-healing properties can increase material lifetimes and reduce maintenance.
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If you had never heard of graphene before, you might know something about it now if you follow the Nobel Prize announcements. Two physicists at the University of Manchester (UK) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking experiments
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Researchers in carbon nanotubes, originally developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have been awarded more than $100,000 by the California Energy Commission to apply the technology to curbing industrial pollution.
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Using the latest in aberration-corrected electron microscopy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers and their colleagues have obtained the first images that distinguish that distinguish individual light atoms such as boron, carbon, nitrogen and o
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For more than three decades, ORNL's Shared Research Equipment (SHaRE) User Facility has provided researchers from universities, industry and other national laboratories with two unique commodities: access to an unmatched array of state-of-the-art electron microscopes and collaboration with a highly skilled staff of scientists.
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