New research exposes the hidden weak points in diamond and opens pathways toward designing more robust diamond-based technologies. Diamond is often hailed as the ultimate material due to its ability ...

For progress in science, distinguishing between ideas or suggestions and solid experimental facts is critical, especially if it concerns a key issue. Such is the case for widespread use of defect ...

An international team of researchers, led by Professor Yu Zou (MSE), is using electric fields to control the motion of material defects. This work has important implications for improving the ...

McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 200 E Dean Keeton Street, Austin, Texas 78712, United States McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas ...

Diamond is more than just a pretty gem – it has many attractive properties that stretch far beyond its aesthetic appeal. Matthew Markham and Daniel Twitchen explain how this special form of carbon now ...

Molecular dynamics simulations of the phase transformation from body- centered-cubic (bcc) to face-centered-cubic (fcc) structures were performed. A Morse-type function was applied, and the parameters ...

Metastable high-pressure materials often possess outstanding properties. However, the stabilization of metastable high-pressure materials usually is challenging due to the very low kinetic barrier for ...

Our understanding of defects in materials science has changed tremendously over the last century. While 100 years ago they were often ignored by scientists, nowadays they are in the spotlight of ...

CuO is a promising anode material for lithium-ion batteries due to its high theoretical capacity, low cost, and non-toxicity. However, its practical application has been plagued by low conductivity ...

Cobalt phosphosulfide (CoPS) has recently emerged as a promising earth-abundant electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Nonetheless, the influence of crystallographic surface on the ...