You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding.

Research suggests some metals’ semicore electrons may be more active on Earth’s surface than previously thought.

Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential ...

Researchers created a near-room-temperature method to make high-entropy alloys with precise control of crystal structure and morphology for custom designs.

2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

Critics slammed attempts by Google, Microsoft and Meta to speed up materials discovery. But behind the hype, there is progress.

The singing voices behind the fictional group Huntrix are taking Y2K-inspired gothic streetwear to red carpets and television ...

Rice University scientists unveil a new lithium-filtering membrane that speeds extraction and cuts environmental impact.

APF-80, enables the crystalline sponge method to capture and analyze nucleophilic compounds. Alkaloids, a diverse group of ...

As OLED overtakes LCD in phones, MicroLED and other types of technology are gaining ground to meet consumer screen demands.

A team of researchers at Rice University has developed a new membrane that selectively filters out lithium from brines, offering a faster, cleaner way to produce the element at the heart of nearly ...

A new AI model generates realistic synthetic microscope images of atoms, providing scientists with reliable training data to accelerate materials research and atomic scale analysis.