A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

European scientists are testing a new material called HealTech, which activates with heat and flows into cracks.

The U.S. Army hopes AI can shorten its hunt for new materials: alloys that make tanks lighter, chemicals that make batteries last longer, even 3D-printers that replace long supply lines with a forward ...

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To build something fantastic, you need fantastic building blocks. Which is exactly what physicists are creating: new materials, with qualities undreamed of in our current world. Quantum materials ...

Maryland-based startup InventWood is set to mass-produce the first batches of 'Superwood,' a new material made of modified timber that's stronger than regular barky stems, and even stronger than steel ...

As some entities identify new (or at least overlooked) sources to meet the growing demand for rare earth materials, others are looking toward new tools. UK deep-tech company Materials Nexus announced ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered new materials and a new process that could advance the ever-escalating quest to make smaller, faster, and affordable microchips used across modern electronics ...

Rapidprint, the first of a new generation of materials made with enzymes and guided by AI, greatly speeds the 3D printing process In a historic first, US company Aether Biomachines is scaling up ...

Materials suppliers are responding to the intense pressures to improve power, performance, scaling, and cost issues, which follows a long timeline from synthesis to development and high volume ...

The inclusion of new materials in the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee's recommendations for the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30) marks a strategic shift: They are no longer just a ...

This series was created for UL Research Institutes by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors. Though his lab in Skokie, Illinois, is thousands of ...