In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful ...

Materials that emit and manipulate light are at the heart of technologies ranging from solar energy to advanced imaging ...

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

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the material actually help, creating networks that separate and guide electric ...

RESEARCHERS at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an AI-based tool to help identify and measure ...

Advancements in nanotechnology fabrication and characterization tools have facilitated a number of developments in the creation of new two-dimensional (2D) materials and gaining and understanding of ...

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 ...

Sometimes, in creating an alloy out of multiple metals, defects and structural instability can occur in the material. Now, researchers are harnessing those imperfections to make the material stronger ...

For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...