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The melting of crystals is the process by which ... materials-by-design of phase-change materials—materials with tunable switching between liquid and solid, which can be useful in many ...

A new manufacturing breakthrough from Penn State researchers could pave the way for safer, more efficient batteries for everything from smartphones to electric vehicles. The team, led by engineering ...

Lithium-ion batteries have been a staple in device manufacturing for years, but the liquid electrolytes they rely on to ...

In a leap forward for materials science, a multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a pioneering method of 3D printing cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs), enabling complex ...

Magnetic composite with stiffness control allows programmable 3D shape shifting for use in soft robots, tactile interfaces, ...

A common lithium salt has revealed new possibilities for manufacturing cheaper, longer-lasting battery materials.

Both fungal and bacterial methods worked. In fact, the bacterially mineralized scaffolds reached full mineralization in just ...

D-printed hydrogel is soft, and sometimes it can be tough. However, could it be hard? Here, researchers from Zhejiang ...

At PNNL, scientists have applied this process to lithium oxide (Li2O). They found that when Li2O is sublimated at sea-level ...