Materials Sciences and Engineering News

Borrowing from birds, experts reduce search times for novel high-entropy alloys to seconds

Ames Laboratory enhanced an algorithm that borrows its approach from the nesting habits of cuckoo birds, reducing the search time for new high-tech alloys from weeks to mere seconds.

Forging Materials with the ‘Right Stuff’ for Tomorrow’s Energy Systems

Materials are foundational technology, and they will continue to be an important focus of nearly all technology development.

Ames Lab's Rinko appointed to PCAST subcommittee

Ph.D. candidate Emily Rinko to serve on inaugural SPEC subcommittee advising policymakers on student perspectives

Ames Lab scientists contribute to newly published rare earths textbook

“Rare Earth Chemistry,” newly published by De Gruyter, contains a chapter on solid state cooling authored by Ames Laboratory scientists.

Reliable quality-control of graphene and other 2D materials is routinely possible, Ames Lab researchers say

Scientists at Ames Laboratory have discovered and confirmed a method which could serve as an easy but reliable way to test the quality of graphene and other 2D materials.

intercalated atoms at graphene-SIC interface

New computational model stands to make NMR an even more powerful tool for researchers

Ames Lab named partner in Brookhaven National Lab quantum research center

Brookhaven Lab will lead the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), which will focus on quantum computing.

Ames Lab named partner with Fermilab in creation of quantum computer prototype

Ames Laboratory is a key partner in the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (SQMS), led by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Using chaos as a tool, scientists discover new method of making 3D-heterostructured materials

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and their collaborators from Iowa State University have developed a new approach for generating layered, difficult-to-combine, heterostructured solids, materials, composed of layers of dissimilar building blocks that display unique electronic transport and magnetic properties that are governed by quantum interactions between their structurally different building blocks, and open new avenues for electronic and energy applications.

New discovery: skyrmions can split like biological cells

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered that skyrmions— a type of quasiparticle with properties that could lead to the next generation of data storage and transfer— reproduce by splitting in a way very similar to biological cell division.