Beyond silicon: Modeling the materials behind the future of electronics

As technology advances beyond traditional silicon-based electronics, organic semiconductors are emerging as a key material for innovations such as wearable sensors, implantable devices and foldable screens. Toulik Maitra, a Ph.D. student in chemical engineering at the University of California, Davis, is helping advance this field through computational modeling that explores how these materials behave at […]

AlloyBot and the future of autonomous materials discovery

The future of materials discovery is here. Watch the fully automatic weighing and arc-melting system that can synthesize 1 alloy per hour (150 alloys per week). This is the first building block of “AlloyBot,” a self-driving laboratory to autonomously synthesize and test alloys 100× faster.