This “Impossible” Crystal Is Changing What We Know About Reality
Once thought impossible, quasicrystals revealed a hidden order that challenges our understanding of materials. Their ...
Study unveils new extrusion-induced instabilities in viscoelastic materials
Soft viscoelastic solids are flexible materials that can return to their original shape after being stretched. Due to the ...
Self-driving lab transforms electronic polymers discovery
Plastic that conducts electricity might sound impossible. But there is a special class of materials known as "electronic ...
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Breaking the pattern: How disorder toughens materials
Researchers have found that adding just the right amount of disorder to the structure of certain materials can make them more than twice as resistant to cracking.
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Millimeter-sized rare-earth crystal can hold terabytes of data
The ability to store information has evolved from punch-card looms to modern smartphones. Every technological advancement has ...
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Self-driving lab transforms materials discovery
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have developed an AI-driven automated material laboratory, Polybot, an autonomous ...
Scientists Develop New Alloy That Breaks the Rules of Thermal Expansion
Scientists have developed a new alloy composed of multiple metals that exhibits nearly zero thermal expansion across an ...
Could we really make Captain America’s shield? A materials scientist weighs in.
Captain America’s star-spangled shield can stand up against the universe’s most powerful forces all thanks to vibranium. This ...
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CAFC Reverses ITC’s Section 101 Invalidity Finding on Composition of Matter Claims
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a precedential decision in US Synthetic Corp. v. International Trade Commission (ITC) reversing the ITC’s determination that US ...