A research team led by Profs. Wang Mingtai and Chen Chong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an antimony trisulfide (Sb₂S₃) solar cell with ...

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 ...

A research team from Skoltech, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, N.M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics RAS, and other scientific organizations has studied the effect of various types of ...

(Nanowerk News) Metal-organic framework (MOF) nanocrystals are hybrid materials, built from metal clusters and organic linkers with an almost unlimited number of possible combinations. Their ...

Engineers are in search of the perfect battery, one that will give smartphones longer-operating times, let electric vehicles drive for hundreds of miles on a single charge and let utilities and ...

Researchers have uncovered a major cause of limitations to efficiency in a new generation of solar cells. Researchers in the materials department in UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering have ...

UPTON, NY--Engineers strive to design smartphones with longer-lasting batteries, electric vehicles that can drive for hundreds of miles on a single charge, and a reliable power grid that can store ...

Distinguishing acceptable deviation from actionable nonconformance involves nuanced engineering and legal considerations. Differentiating between a deviation, deficiency and defect becomes crucial for ...