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Researchers at the University of California San Diego developed an ultrasound-emitting device that brings lithium metal batteries, or LMBs, one step closer to commercial viability. Although the research team focused on LMBs, the device can be used in any battery, regardless of chemistry.

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Keywords: Batteries, Energy, Materials Science, Electronics, EVs

Biomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated that, despite significant advancements in protection from ballistics and blunt impacts, modern military helmets are no better at protecting the brain from shock waves created by nearby blasts than their World War I counterparts.

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Keywords: Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology, Mechanical Engineering, Materials, Technology/Engineering/Computer Science (Weaponry, Chemical/Biological Weapons)

Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a revolutionary desalination process that has the potential to be operated in mobile, solar-powered units.

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Keywords: Energy Sources, Hydrology, Water Resources, Marine/Freshwater, Materials, research development

Researchers have developed a new method that could one day replace conventional pressure treating as a way to make lumber not only fungal-resistant but also nearly impervious to water – and more thermally insulating.

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Keywords: Building, Lumber, pressure-treating, wood, Chemicals, atomic layer deposition

Researchers uncover a technique known as molecular layer etching which aid in building intricate 3D nanostructures for semiconductor devices and other microelectronics.

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Keywords: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Nanofabrication, Applied Materials Division (AMD), Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), Energy and Global Security, Nanomaterial Devices, Physical Sciences and Engineering

Scientists used unique scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy techniques to control how electrons moved on the surface of a bismuth-based material (Bi2Te2Se).

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Keywords: Conductivity, Materials Science, Microscopy, Spectroscopy

Recent research has shown that 2D materials may have potential as light sources that emit light as single photons.

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Keywords: Quantum Information, Quantum Information Technology, Quantum information science, Materials, Materials Science, Materials Science & Engineering, 2D materials

A method to observe a new class of topological materials, called Weyl semimetals, has been developed by researchers at Penn State, MIT, Tohoku University, Japan and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. The material’s unusual electronic properties could be useful in future electronics and in quantum physics.

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Keywords: Weyl semimetal, Quantum Physics

Photonic integration has focused on communications applications traditionally fabricated on silicon chips, because these are less expensive and more easily manufactured, and researchers are exploring promising new waveguide platforms that provide these same benefits for applications that operate in the ultraviolet to the infrared spectrum. These platforms enable a broader range of applications, such as spectroscopy for chemical sensing, precision metrology and computation. A paper in APL Photonics provides a perspective of the field.

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Keywords: chip, bandgap, photonic integration, Ultraviolet, Infrared, ultraviolet spectrum, Physics, Photonics, material chips, Daniel J. Blumenthal, APL Photonics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Physicists show unique polymer behavior using computer simulationsEmploying a computer simulation, physicists Maximilian Liebetreu and Christos Likos have shown a unique dynamic behavior of cyclic polymers. Their motion can be distinguished into phases, and the scientists were able to observe the so-called "inflation phase" for the first time.

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Keywords: University of Vienna, Macromolecules, Physics, Polymers, Communications Materials