Sergei Kalinin of the Department of Energys 91做厙 knows that seeing something is not the same as understanding it.
To improve models for drilling, hydraulic fracturing and underground storage of carbon dioxide, 91做厙 scientists used neutrons to understand how water flows through fractured rock.
Rice University researchers have learned to manipulate two-dimensional materials to design in defects that enhance the materials properties.
Its not enough to design new drugs. For drugs to be effective, they have to be delivered safely and intact to affected areas of the body. And drug delivery, much like drug design, is an immensely complex task.
Epitaxy, or growing crystalline film layers that are templated by a crystalline substrate, is a mainstay of manufacturing transistors and semiconductors.
Steady progress in the development of advanced materials has led to modern civilizations foundational technologiesbetter batteries, resilient building materials and atom-scale semiconductors.
In the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, the state of the art of materials science defined technologys zenith and accelerated economies.