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This corralled supercooled liquid relies on the surprising property that some atoms in a liquid remain stationary regardless ...

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A major breakthrough in battery science reveals why promising single-crystal lithium-ion batteries haven’t lived up to ...

High-energy-density lithium-ion batteries are essential for next-generation electric vehicles and energy storage systems.

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a broader research community, boosting our understanding of brain function and ...

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have identified the source of a ...

A new study shows that promising single-crystal battery materials degrade for reasons scientists hadn’t fully recognized before. Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory and the UChicago Pritzker Sch ...

Polymer thin-film optical cavities boost the magnetic sensing sensitivity of nanodiamond quantum sensors nearly fivefold ...

This is where things get really exciting. Nanomaterials are like tiny delivery trucks and super-powered microscopes for ...