In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful new properties. Today, atomic-scale defects are carefully introduced during ...

A team co-led by UC San Diego and the University of Michigan reports that short pulses of sound could remotely drag a structural defect through a metamaterial lattice, potentially letting researchers ...

A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials' mechanical strength, heat transfer, and ...

DAEJEON, South Korea, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ --Topological defects govern how many advanced materials behave, but predicting them has traditionally required slow, resource-intensive simulations.

When we talk about defects, we generally think of flaws or impairments. However, as far as materials science is concerned, defects represent windows of opportunity. A new Collaborative Research Center ...

Cadmium selenide nanoplatelets provide a promising foundation for the development of innovative electronic materials. Since the turn of the millennium, researchers around the world have taken a ...

High discharge density was achieved in high-quality relaxor ferroelectric BNT-based ceramics through a combination of chemical doping, hierarchical structure design, advanced sintering technology, and ...

The AI model rapidly maps boundary conditions to molecular alignment and defect locations, replacing hours of simulation and enabling fast exploration and inverse design of advanced optical materials.

DAEJEON, South Korea, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ --Topological defects govern how many advanced materials behave, but predicting them has traditionally required slow, resource-intensive simulations.