If you accidently touched an electrical motor as soon as it had stopped rotating at high speed, you would burn your fingers. But if the motor was made from a special kind of material known as an ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: Despite its name, metallic glass is ...

Hydrogen is a promising clean energy carrier, but its adoption depends on cost-efficient production. Electrochemical water splitting is a key method, yet it relies on scarce and expensive noble metal ...

Why do glass and other amorphous materials deform more easily in some regions than in others? A research team from the University of Osaka, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...

Researchers uncovered how soft regions in amorphous silicon mix order and disorder, offering new insights for designing stronger amorphous materials. Persistence diagram obtained from the structure of ...

Conductive organic materials often derive their electronic properties from highly organized crystal structures. Now, researchers have developed an organic polymer that conducts electricity like a ...

When metal alloys are melted, the atoms lose their ordered structure. Most metals alloys will snap back to their rigid crystal structures when cooled back down. Bulk metallic glasses, if cooled at ...

The X-ray Laboratory of Rigaku Corporation, a Rigaku Holdings Group company and a global solution partner for X-ray analysis (headquarters: Akishima, Tokyo; president and CEO: Jun Kawakami; “Rigaku”), ...

The electricity sector and legacy steel companies are squaring off with a company in South Carolina over DOE’s transformer proposal. CONWAY, S.C. — On the outskirts of this sleepy coastal town, where ...