When Barbara Bowen was planning for retirement, she took pains to get her house in order. Chief among her projects was replacing the cedar-shake roof on her 1970s' Walnut Creek home. After careful ...

AMES, Iowa – Materials engineers don’t like to see line defects in functional materials. The structural flaws along a one-dimensional line of atoms generally degrades performance of electrical ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a new approach to detail the formation of material changes at the atomic scale and in near-real time, an ...

Future devices will continue to probe the frontier of the very small, and at scales where functionality depends on mere atoms, even the tiniest flaw matters. Researchers at Rice University have shown ...

A new study helps to reconcile a Nobel Prize-winning theory with experiments on how solids actually melt. In 1972, physicists J. Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless published a groundbreaking theory ...

Murder-suicides and other potential “psychological stigmas” do not qualify as material defects under real estate disclosure laws in Pennsylvania, according to an opinion filed by the state Supreme ...

(Nanowerk News) Two-dimensional materials are essential for developing new ultra-compact electronic devices, but producing defect-free 2D materials is a challenge. However, discovery of new types of ...

Topological defects in liquid crystals guide the self-assembly of molecular amphiphiles. Figure 1: Self-assembly of amphiphiles in nematic liquid-crystal defects. Abbott and co-workers' study raises ...

Graphical abstract. Credit: Inorganic Chemistry (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03241 Aksyonov, Assistant Professor Stanislav Fedotov, and Professor Artem Abakumov (CEST), with their colleagues, ...

Researchers have discovered that engineering one-dimensional line defects into certain materials can increase their electrical performance. Materials engineers don't like to see line defects in ...