AMES, Iowa – Materials engineers don’t like to see line defects in functional materials. The structural flaws along a one-dimensional line of atoms generally degrades performance of electrical ...

Defects such as cracks in a material are responsible for everything from malfunctioning microchips to earthquakes. Now MIT engineers have developed a model to predict a defect's birthplace, its ...

Hidden semiconductor defects often pass inspection but fail later in operation. Learn how latent defects form, evade detection, and drive long-term reliability failures.

Topological defects in liquid crystals guide the self-assembly of molecular amphiphiles. Figure 1: Self-assembly of amphiphiles in nematic liquid-crystal defects. Abbott and co-workers' study raises ...

A research team led by Dr. Jeong Min Park of the Nano Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science ...

Graphical abstract. Credit: Inorganic Chemistry (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03241 Aksyonov, Assistant Professor Stanislav Fedotov, and Professor Artem Abakumov (CEST), with their colleagues, ...

BERKELEY, Calif. — In a study at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), exposing certain thermoelectric materials to alpha-particle radiation has been shown to transform the materials into far ...

Researchers have discovered that engineering one-dimensional line defects into certain materials can increase their electrical performance. Materials engineers don't like to see line defects in ...