AMES, Iowa – Materials engineers don’t like to see line defects in functional materials. The structural flaws along a one-dimensional line of atoms generally degrades performance of electrical ...

Materials that emit and manipulate light are at the heart of technologies ranging from solar energy to advanced imaging ...

New review outlines a design framework for solid oxide electrochemical cells, linking crystal structure and defect chemistry ...

Defects such as cracks in a material are responsible for everything from malfunctioning microchips to earthquakes. Now MIT engineers have developed a model to predict a defect's birthplace, its ...

BERKELEY, Calif. — In a study at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), exposing certain thermoelectric materials to alpha-particle radiation has been shown to transform the materials into far ...

A new approach has been uncovered to detail the formation of material defects at the atomic scale and in near-real time, an important step that could assist in engineering better and stronger new ...