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Salt air corrosion is a serious challenge for coastal outdoor displays. Material coatings now play a critical role in long-term deployment success.
#CorrosionResistance #CoastalDeployment #OutdoorLCDTech #MaterialScience

🧊 What are #metamaterials, and why does their size matter?

Shyam Veluvali and research team at the UG & UMCG discovered new insights that lead to better implants, robot hands, and bumpers.

🧪 #SciComm #sciencealert #ScienceNewsroom #implants #robotics #materialscience #engineering #mechanics #technology #research #science #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen @umcgresearch

Examples of 3D printed metamaterial blocks with different unit cells, as studied in the paper. | Image Shantanu Nath, University of Groningen.

Reference: H.C.V.M. Shyam Veluvali et al.: When Scale Matters: Size-Dependent Mechanics of Architected Lattices for Implants and Beyond. Small Structures, 13 January 2026

Reshaping #gold into a sponge-like #nanoporous structure fundamentally alters its interaction with light, drastically enhancing its electronic properties and #optical absorption without modifying its #chemical composition.
#Physics #MaterialScience #Optics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/phy02022601.html

How underwater 3D printing could soon transform maritime construction

https://newatlas.com/3d-printing/underwater-3d-printing-maritime-construction-darpa-cornell/

#science #engineering #technology #3dprinting #materialscience

Researchers have identified specific achiral "parent" materials that can be engineered into electronically #chiral materials with a single, uniform handedness through targeted structural distortion.
#Physics #MaterialScience #Microelectronics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/phy01292603.html

A new #computational framework establishes a benchmark for determining the three-dimensional positions and elemental identities of individual #atoms within amorphous, disordered materials like glass.
#Nanotechnology #MaterialScience #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/nt01282601.html

Researchers identified electron-electron scattering as the missing key to accurately predicting high-temperature #superconductivity in cerium superhydride, solving a long-standing theoretical discrepancy.
#Physics #MaterialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/phy01192602.html

🔩 How do metals "remember" their shape?

Mechanical engineer Francesco Maresca & his team at the UG, published an atomistic model which explains how memory alloys, e.g. used in dental braces, can return to their pre-deformed shape when heated.🔥

🧪 #SciComm #ScienceNewsroom #mechanics #modelling #mechanical #engineering #materialscience #technology #research #science #scientistsOnMastodon @universityofgroningen

Atomistic model showing the coexistence of two solid phases of NiTi: austenite (blue), stable at higher temperatures, and martensite (brown), stable at lower temperatures. The martensite region consists of two differently oriented variants of the same crystal structure (light and dark brown), forming a twinned microstructure. | Image University of Groningen

Scientists synthesized #potassium cobalt arsenate, a new magnetic #honeycomb lattice material where structural distortions cause #cobalt spins to strongly couple and align, serving as a stepping stone toward #quantum spin liquids.
#MaterialScience #Chemistry #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/ms01162601.html

An improved existing technology by integrating a flexible, #phosphorescent #polymer layer and transparent #electrodes made from MXene nanomaterial. The result is an #OLED that can be stretched to 1.6 times its original size, while maintaining most of its #luminescence
#Technology #Nanotechnology #MaterialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/tech01142601.html

Researchers have created a self-healing composite that is tougher than materials currently used in #aircraft wings, #turbine #blades and other applications – and can repair itself more than 1,000 times. The researchers estimate their self-healing strategy can extend the lifetime of conventional fiber-reinforced composite materials by centuries
#MaterialScience #Engineering #sflorg
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2523447123

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute have refined an X-ray #diffraction technique for detecting #biological structures from nanometers to millimeters – reducing the time needed to make the measurement from around one day to about an hour. This opens a wide range of possibilities for biomedical research – from analyzing bone and tissue structures to supporting the development of new implants.
#Bioengineering #Biomedical #MaterialScience #Nanotechnology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/ms01122601.html

#holyfuck #aluminium 5x times stronger #ai researched #material https://news.mit.edu/2025/printable-aluminum-alloy-sets-strength-records-may-enable-lighter-aircraft-parts-1007 #materialscience

Rare earth #elements (REEs) are crucial for energy-related applications and are expected to play an increasingly important role in emerging technologies. However, these elements have very similar #chemical properties and naturally coexist as complex mixtures in both traditional and unconventional feedstocks, making their separation challenging.
#MaterialScience #Chemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/ms01102601.html

Scientists have found a way to make #perovskite solar cells not only highly efficient but also remarkably stable, addressing one of the main challenges holding the #technology back from widespread use.
#MaterialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/ms01092601.html

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have achieved a breakthrough on the path to practical application of #lithium metal all-solid-state batteries – the next generation of batteries that can store more energy, are safer to operate, and charge faster than conventional lithium-ion #batteries
#MaterialScience #Chemistry #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/ms01082601.html

Inside Solidification

As children, we’re taught that there are three distinct phases of matter–solid, liquid, and gas–but the reality is somewhat more complicated. In the right–often exotic–conditions, there are far more phases matter takes on. In a recent study, researchers described a metal that sits somewhere between a liquid and a solid.

In a liquid, atoms are free to move. During solidification, atoms lose this freedom, and their frozen positions relative to one another determine the solid’s properties. Atoms frozen into orderly patterns form crystals, whereas those frozen haphazardly become amorphous solids. In their experiment, researchers instead observed atoms in liquid metal nanoparticles that remained stationary throughout the transition from liquid to solid. The number and position of stationary atoms affected whether the final solid crystallized or not.

By tracking these stationary atoms and their influence, the team hopes to better control the material properties of the final solidified metal. (Image credit: U. of Nottingham; research credit: C. Leist et al.; via Gizmodo)

#amorphousSolid #fluidDynamics #materialScience #phaseChange #physics #science #solidification

A representational picture for solid and liquid metals.

Their findings demonstrate an important use case for #AI #technology in new materials development and suggests that the technology has the potential to accelerate research and development. This could drive innovation in various industries such as #environment and energy, #drug discovery and healthcare, and #electronic devices.
#MaterialScience #ArtificialIntelligence #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/12/ms12232501.html

Glass sits in a rare state of matter, full of mystery, beauty, and science. #GlassFacts #AmorphousSolid #MaterialScience #ScienceExplained #Inspiration
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/glass-neither-solid-nor-liquid-quiet-magic-unusual-mohindroo--4mg2c

#MaterialScience

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