image: THE INTRODUCTION OF DEFECTS INTO ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR METAL-BASED BATTERIES IS AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGY TO IMPROVE BATTERY PERFORMANCE, DUE TO DEFECTIVE CATALYSTS HAVE THE ADVANTAGES OF HIGH ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--It's a well-known characteristic of metals that repeated bending in the same place can cause the material to weaken and eventually break; this phenomenon, known as metal fatigue, can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists from the federally funded Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois and the University of Virginia have developed a new ...

Using X-ray beams and machine learning for detecting structural defects, such as pore formation, can help prevent failure of metal 3D-printed parts. Systematic computer-based material design uses ...

Researchers at Texas A&M tweak alloy microchemistry to achieve flawless metal 3D printing with LBPF. Colorized electron micrograph of a nickel powder alloy from the study. A new study by Texas A&M ...

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered that atomic-scale substitutional dopants in ultra-thin two-dimensional (2D) materials can act as stable quantum systems ...