A research team consisting of National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Hokkaido University, and Hiroshima University has developed an iron oxide-based ultraviolet (UV)-absorbing powder material by stabilizing normally unstable, colorless, UV-absorbing di-nuclear iron species in porous silica.
Shane Aaron Catledge, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Physics, was awarded a three-year Division of Materials grant from the National Science Foundation for his project “New frontiers in synthesis of high-entropy transition metal borides enabled by microwave-induced plasma.”
The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering have succeeded in fabricating a nickel single crystal with only a very few crystalline defects by irradiating nickel powder with a large-radius, flat-top laser beam.
UNLV physicist Qiang Zhu’s efforts to accelerate new materials discovery is getting a jumpstart with $1.3 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). His work employs advanced computations to theorize the design and application of new materials.
Researchers in China have summarized two decades of phase engineering work to see how regulating the rearrangements of materials may enable sustainable energy conversion processes, with a specific focus on electrocatalysts, including how the field might progress.
