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By Lisa McDonald / January 3, 2024

Laser-driving a 2D material, stopping perovskite degradation, and other materials stories that may be of interest for January 3, 2024.

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Nanoscale goldbeating: Ancient Egyptian technique adapted for fabricating 2D thin films

By Guest Contributor / October 20, 2023

Two-dimensional thin films are often fabricated using bottom-up solution-based techniques, such as electrochemical deposition and atomic layer deposition. Now researchers have reported a top-down, solid-state method based on the age-old Egyptian craft of goldbeating that they say is generalizable to various metallic, polymeric, or ceramic nanoparticles.

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By Lisa McDonald / September 27, 2023

MXene-enhanced hydrogel sensors, next-generation solar panels, and other materials stories that may be of interest for September 27, 2023.

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By Lisa McDonald / September 6, 2023

Sensing at the nanoscale, recycling refractory materials, and other materials stories that may be of interest for September 6, 2023.

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Video: Computer vision method demonstrates potential of rapid and automated quality control for cements

By Lisa McDonald / July 26, 2023

Testing the durability of building materials is typically a slow, tedious, and labor-intensive process. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used computer vision to develop a fast and affordable method for testing cement durability, demonstrating the potential to improve quality control in the cement industry through automated methods.

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By Lisa McDonald / July 12, 2023

Carbon fiber and composites recycling, fermion pair images, and other materials stories that may be of interest for July 12, 2023.

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De-‘SCRIBE’-ing improvements—researchers refine procedure for printing gradient refractive index optics

By Lisa McDonald / June 2, 2023

Significant progress in creating optics with nonuniform (gradient) refractive indices has been made over the past two decades. In 2020, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign proposed a unique way to use direct laser writing to achieve even greater control over the refractive index. A new open-access paper details refinements to their so-called SCRIBE method.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / May 17, 2023

Catalyst curbs corrosion in fuel cell, microprinting inside materials, and other materials stories that may be of interest for May 17, 2023.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / May 3, 2023

Grow atomically thin transistors, a sapphire Schrödinger’s cat, and other materials stories that may be of interest for May 3, 2023.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / April 12, 2023

Rubble rebuilds key infrastructure, fully recyclable printed electronics, and other materials stories that may be of interest for April 12, 2023.

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