Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Northwestern University announce their collaboration to help accelerate new materials discovery, design, and development with the world’s first nanomaterial “data factory.”
UMaine awarded NSF MRI grant to update instrumentation for climate, environment, ecosystem, and engineering research
The National Science Foundation awarded a $661,462 Major Research Instrumentation grant to the University of Maine to upgrade a multiuser instrument in the Climate Change Institute.
Researchers discover a material that can learn like the brain
Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo, a Ph.D. student at EPFL School of Engineering’s Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory (POWERlab), made a chance discovery during his research on phase transitions in vanadium dioxide.
AFRL experiments with heat flow to manipulate quantum materials
The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Nano Electronic Materials Branch, used heat flow experiments to manipulate quantum materials into functioning in new and different ways at higher temperatures.
Graphite morphs into hexagonal diamond in picoseconds
In new experiments, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have emulated the conditions of Lonsdaleite, a diamond formation, using picosecond time scale laser compression and observed the transition with state-of -the-art materials characterization using femtosecond x-ray pulses. This graphite-diamond phase transition is of particular interest for fundamental reasons and a wide range of applications.