Multiferroic materials simultaneously exhibit two or more primary ferroic orders – most commonly ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity – making them unique platforms for both fundamental study and ...

Skoltech researchers have presented a new simple physical model for predicting the hardness of materials based on information ...

The Battery Experts video series from Anton Paar explores essential material characterization techniques in the R&D and manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries. This video gives an overview of physical ...

A new set of simple equations can fast-track the search for metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), a Nobel-Prize-winning class of ...

Ryan Lee has received funding from the Air Force Office of Science Research . The new material is a type of architected material, which gets its properties mainly from the geometry and specific traits ...

Materials are a necessity for all engineering applications. Materials science and engineering seeks to understand the fundamental physical origins of material behavior in order to optimize properties ...

Since the discovery of quasicrystals (QCs), solids that mimic crystals in their long-range order but lack periodicity, scientists have sought physical properties related to their peculiar structure.

Damiano Pasini receives funding from the Canada Research Chairs Program and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. McGill University provides funding as a member of The ...

Strain can be introduced to materials through various methods, including mechanical stretching, bending, compressing, or by epitaxial growth on substrates with different lattice constants. Advanced ...