(Nanowerk News) A flash of light traps this material in an excited state indefinitely, and new experiments reveal how it happens. A dry material makes a great fire starter, and a soft material lends ...

What expands when crushed, shrinks when heated, and could both change scientists’ fundamental understanding of materials and return old EV batteries to factory-fresh performance levels? It’s not a ...

As part of a long-term research collaboration, researchers in the lab of Prof. Y. Shirley Meng at the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and visiting scholars from UC San Diego found ...

Illustration of the material’s transition, with time represented from left to right. A laser pulse (left) sends the material into disorder (middle). Out of this so-called soup phase emerges a highly ...