In a world-first for battery research, researchers from the University of Bayreuth and the Hong Kong University of Science ...

Finding new materials with useful properties is a primary goal for materials scientists, and it's central to improving technology. One exciting area of current research is 2D materials—super-thin ...

The generation of electricity from heat, also known as thermoelectric energy conversion, has proved to be advantageous for ...

A clever method from Caltech researchers now makes it possible to unravel complex electron-lattice interactions, potentially ...

In a paper published in Nature Physics, the Caltech team uses its new method to precisely compute the strength of electron-phonon interactions and to predict associated effects quantitatively. The ...