An introductory course focused on the new and existing materials that are crucial for mitigating worldwide anthropogenic CO2 emissions and associated greenhouse gases. Emphasis will be placed on how ...

Materials are fundamental to every energy technology. Solar panels, batteries, catalysts, fuel cells, LEDs, insulation, electrodes, in all of these applications the performance, cost, and durability ...

Researchers have revisited a long-known material and uncovered a way to dramatically enhance its performance by altering its structure at the nanoscale.

Material science, at its core, is an interdisciplinary field focusing on the discovery and design of new materials. It combines elements of physics, chemistry and engineering to understand and ...

In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful ...

Materials databases lie at the heart of future data-driven discovery in energy-related fields, say researchers from Tohoku ...