Tag: Materials
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Organic glass scintillators: A Q&A with Sara Pozzi
The radiation detection material stands to improve nuclear security by clearly distinguishing radiation types from a safe distance.
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Better helium reporting to improve fission and fusion materials modeling
Helium generation predictions vary by as much as 200%, a new standardized reporting method can help move the field forward.
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Key structures to metallic glass stability revealed with machine learning
Using the second-nearest neighboring atoms to predict metallic glass stability can help researchers more accurately model the disordered solid with strong, elastic properties.
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Silk made into strong plastic-like materials with 6G potential
The new manufacturing method preserves silk’s crystalline structure and could help upcycle short fibers into telecom equipment.
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Quantum metallurgy: Electron crystals deform and melt
Electrons can arrange into crystalline patterns that accumulate defects as they melt; controlling the degree of melting may advance superconductors and artificial neurons.
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Fine-tuning nanoscale heat flows in molecular materials
Researchers demonstrate how swapping out a single atom can cut the thermal conductance in half without changing electrical properties.
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A color-changing phosphor for encoding information
Applying heat or a solvent makes a new purely organic phosphor reversibly switch between glowing green and blue at room temperature.
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Letting atomic simulations learn from phase diagrams
Ten times more efficient than previous methods, a new machine learning method builds a two-way connection between atomic simulation and experimental data.
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Medical and materials innovations of two women engineers recognized by Sony and Nature
Two U-M engineers received this year’s Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature for improving solar cells and medical tech for treating cancer and cognitive disease.
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Speeding up light-driven chemical reactions with nanocrystals
Syncing molecular vibrations with plasmons, quantum packets of electron motion, helped researchers create an accessible, scalable photocatalyst platform.
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Simple equations predict hydrogen storage in porous materials
The new approach found two physical traits—void fraction and pore volume—predict metal-organic framework performance without using supercomputers.
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Toughened hydrogels could replace cartilage, skin and more
U-M formula and process allow for the creation of devices and materials for precision medicine.