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BYLINE: Jamie Oberdick Newswise — UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Carbyne, a one-dimensional chain of carbon atoms, is incredibly strong for being so thin, making it an intriguing possibility for use in next-generation electronics, but its extreme instability causing it to bend and snap on itself made it nearly impossible to produce at all, let alone…
Newswise — The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has selected 79 PhD students from 56 universities and 29 states for the prestigious Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program. SCGSR prepares doctoral candidates for careers of critical importance to the Office of Science’s mission of transforming our understanding of nature and advancing…
Newswise — Florida State University President Richard McCullough will be a member of the newest class inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. McCullough was recognized for his discovery and development of a type of polymer known as regioregular polythiophenes and other breakthrough organic electronic materials, and for founding companies that have advanced the…
Newswise — Physicist Kamel Fezzaa of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has received the 2025 Gopal K. Shenoy Excellence in Beamline Science Award. The annual award recognizes active beamline scientists at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a DOE Office of Science user facility at Argonne, for significant contributions to research or instrumentation and…
Newswise — With the advent of the 5G era, the demand for high-speed and large-capacity data transmission in optical fiber communication is becoming increasingly urgent. As a core component of optical communication, the performance of electro-optic modulators highly depends on the electro-optic coefficient, response speed, and stability of the material. However, traditional materials (such as…
Photos in the laser facility // Animated fly-through of the ZEUS laser system Newswise — The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has roughly doubled the peak power of any other laser in the U.S. with its first official experiment at 2 petawatts (2 quadrillion watts). At more than 100 times the global…
Newswise — Sustainably produced, biodegradable materials are an important focus of modern materials science. However, when working natural materials such as cellulose, lignin or chitin, researchers face a trade-off. Although these substances are biodegradable in their pure form, they are often not ideal when it comes to performance. Chemical processing steps can be used to…
BYLINE: Paul Menser Newswise — Keeping the nation’s lights on is no small job. The grid we take for granted involves large, expensive equipment, most notably power transformers. If one goes down, it can take more than a year to replace and at massive costs. In heavily populated, seismically active areas like California or the…
There are 17 elements that make up the materials called rare earth elements. Each of these can be used to make rare earth metals. While some metals like gold, silver, copper and platinum, are mined in their metallic forms, others, including iron, aluminum, and lead are found in mineral ores and must be chemically processed…
Newswise — Nylon-based products such as clothing and fishing nets are notoriously slow to degrade, especially in marine environments, contributing significantly to global ocean pollution. A Korean research team has now developed an innovative material that can be produced using existing manufacturing infrastructure and effectively addresses this problem. A joint research team led by Dr….
