Thermoelectric materials enable the direct conversion of heat into electrical energy. This makes them particularly attractive ...

An international team has succeeded in producing new, efficient thermoelectric materials that could compete with state-of-the-art materials, offering greater stability and lower cost.

Scientists have found a clever way to double the efficiency of thermoelectric materials — those that convert heat into ...

Scientists have achieved a major milestone in the quest to understand high-temperature superconductivity in hydrogen-rich ...

THE ions or molecules occupying the cells of a crystal lattice are in general optically anisotropic, and should also be capable of executing small angular oscillations about their positions of ...

The material could someday be used in flexible semiconductors, tear-resistant textiles, bioengineering scaffolds, and more.

a superconductor with a Kagome lattice (i.e., in which atoms form a hexagonal pattern that resembles that of Kagome woven baskets). Their paper, published in Nature Physics, identifies two ...

A team of scientists have developed zero thermal expansion (ZTE) materials. This innovation has achieved nearly 100% voltage ...

A new study published in Nature Communications April 7 could reshape ... in a class of crystalline materials known as kagome lattice, a geometric arrangement of corner-sharing triangles named ...

A new way to make large ultrathin infrared sensors that don’t need cryogenic cooling could radically change night vision for ...

Superconductivity is a quantum property of materials entailing an electrical resistance of zero at very low temperatures. In some materials, multiple electronic bands are known to contribute to the ...