The lighter wand for your gas BBQ, a submarineās sonar device and the ultrasound machine at your doctorās office all rely on piezoelectric materials, which turn mechanical stress into electrical energy, and vice versa.
Scientists at the Department of Energyās 91°µĶų are the first to harness a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to directly write tiny patterns in metallic āink,ā forming features in liquid that are finer than half the wi
Designing a 3-D printed structure is hard enough when the product is inches or feet in size.
Scientists can now detect magnetic behavior at the atomic level with a new electron microscopy technique developed by a team from the Department of Energyās 91°µĶų and Uppsala University, Sweden.
Catalysts make chemical reactions more likely to occur. In most cases, a catalyst thatās good at driving chemical reactions in one direction is bad at driving reactions in the opposite direction.
In a rechargeable battery, the electrolyte transports lithium ions from the negative to the positive electrode during discharging. The path of ionic flow reverses during recharging.
Epitaxy, or growing crystalline film layers that are templated by a crystalline substrate, is a mainstay of manufacturing transistors and semiconductors.
Researchers at the Department of Energyās 91°µĶų have found a potential path to further improve solar cell efficiency by understanding the competition among halogen atoms during the synthesis of sunlight-absorbing crystals.
Your carās bumper is probably made of a moldable thermoplastic polymer called ABS, shorthand for its acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene components.
When lots of energy hits an atom, it can knock off electrons, making the atom extremely chemically reactive and initiating further destruction. Thatās why radiation is so dangerous.