A quantum leap for motion sensing

For the first time, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N. M., have used silicon photonic microchip components to perform a quantum sensing technique called atom interferometry, an ultra-precise way of measuring acceleration and the latest milestone toward developing a kind of quantum compass for navigation when GPS signals are unavailable.

New catalyst material achieves double the DOE fuel cell lifetime target

A UCLA-led team, including Professor Xiangfeng Duan and Dr. Bosi Peng, has developed an ultrafine platinum nanocatalyst embedded with cobalt oxide clusters, significantly enhancing fuel cell efficiency and durability by reducing platinum dissolution. This new catalyst, designed by UCLA materials scientists and chemists, nearly doubles the projected lifetime target set by the U.S. Department of […]

Research sheds light on universal mechanisms of work hardening

Scientists from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have, for the first time, observed the detailed mechanisms of work hardening, a process discovered by early blacksmiths in the Bronze and Iron Ages that strengthens metal through deformation. This research, conducted at the Harvard Materials Research Science and Engineering Center […]