Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the ...

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the material actually help, creating networks that separate and guide electric ...

The Kardar Parisi Zhang equation models surface growth. After forty years, researchers confirmed its two dimensional behavior using polaritons in engineered materials.

With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...

When you build a structure, the materials matter. The poorer the materials, the less reliable  the structure. Databases are ...

Star-shaped vanadium hydroxide nanoparticles show that changing a material's shape from sheets to stars shifts its energy ...

MIT physicists have synthesized a new family of bulk crystals whose electrons behave as though they move in an effectively ...

UC Davis-led study shows that exposure to light changes halide perovskite structure in a way that is rapid and reversible A new study 'Reversible, Photo-Induced Lattice Distortions in Halide ...

Materials scientists say they’ve taken nearly 300-year-old toxic waste—a stockpile of spherical lead bullets from the 16th ...

A male peacock's tail, for instance, is pigmented brown, but because of the way microscopic structures in the feathers ...

Rice University scientists and collaborators have created a new type of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor that comes closer ...

Researchers have discovered that perovskite crystals can rapidly and reversibly change shape when exposed to light, revealing ...