Magnetism without metal: a milestone for materials science

“This is fundamentally new”

09-Oct-2024 - Dr Hongde Yu and Prof Thomas Heine from TUD Dresden University of Technology have succeeded for the first time in predicting metal-free organic magnetic materials using precise computer simulations. These magnetic two-dimensional (2D) polymers could play an important role in data storage, medical ...

Breakthrough in Nanotechnology: New Method to Synthesize Amorphous Metal-Organic Frameworks and Coordination Polymers

Innovative research approach enables the development of new materials and applications in technology and medicine

15-Jul-2024 - Researchers at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, led by Prof. Dr. Nicola Pinna, have made a groundbreaking advancement in nanotechnology, successfully extending the well-known Stöber method to synthesize amorphous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and coordination polymers (CPs). This innovative ...

New materials: Synthetic pathway for promising nitride compounds discovered

Chemists have successfully synthesized Ruddlesden-Popper nitrides for the first time, opening the door to new materials with unique properties

01-Jul-2024 - Ruddlesden-Popper compounds are a class of materials with a special layered structure that makes them interesting for numerous applications – as superconductors or catalysts, for example, or for use in photovoltaics. There have been many halides and oxides of this structural type before now, but ...

An optical lens that senses gas

Researchers develop optical lens from hybrid glass

28-Jun-2024 - A research team from the University of Jena has developed a small optical lens, only a few millimetres in size, whose refractive behaviour changes in the presence of gas. As reported by the researchers in the journal Nature Communications, this “intelligent” behaviour of the micro-lens is enabled ...

Quantum Annealer Improves Understanding of Quantum Many-Body Systems

27-Jun-2024 - Physicists have long been pursuing the idea of simulating quantum particles with a computer that is itself made up of quantum particles. This is exactly what scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have done together with colleagues from Slovenia. They used a quantum annealer to model a real-life ...

In the focus of X-rays: New materials for the energy transition

New Process to Test Materials for the Hydrogen Industry

27-Jun-2024 - Researchers at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY have developed a method to rapidly test new materials for the hydrogen industry and analyze their properties down to the atomic level. They were the first to test so-called high-entropy alloys for their corrosion resistance to hydrogen, and ...

Maxterial Raises nearly $8 Million in Series A Funding

Disruptive Force in Material Science Innovation

25-Jun-2024 - Maxterial, a technology company dedicated to pioneering advancements in material science including the commercialization of advanced coatings, has announced the successful closure of its Series A funding round, raising nearly $8 million. This milestone underscores Maxterial's rising influence in ...

Milestone in plasma acceleration: New energy record for next generation proton accelerators

Promising applications in medicine and materials science are getting closer

15-May-2024 - The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has made a significant advance in laser plasma acceleration. By employing an innovative method, a research team managed to substantially exceed the previous record for proton acceleration. For the first time, they achieved energies that so far have ...

Start-up aims to revolutionize chemical and materials R&D with quantum and AI

Quantistry secures €3M funding to accelerate discovery of new sustainable materials

14-Mar-2024 - Quantistry, an innovator in the field of chemical simulations, has announced the successful closure of a €3 million funding round. This significant milestone, led by Ananda Impact Ventures, galvanizes Quantistry's mission to revolutionize the research and development (R&D) landscape through its ...

Do AI-driven chemistry labs actually work?

New metrics promise answers

20-Feb-2024 - The fields of chemistry and materials science are seeing a surge of interest in “self-driving labs,” which make use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated systems to expedite research and discovery. Researchers are now proposing a suite of definitions and performance metrics that will ...