Materials Sciences and Engineering News

Scientists shuffle atomic layers like playing cards to make new quantum materials

Materials scientists can now shuffle layered compounds together, much like combining two different decks of cards.

DOE announces over $65 Million in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

2021 Technology Commercialization Fund Awards connect private-sector partners to DOE National Labs

Researchers build structured, multi-part nanocrystals with super light-emitting properties

Researchers combined perovskite nanocubes with spherical nanoparticles to form a regular, repeating structure called a superlattice.

Old friends find new way of breaking down plastic for recycling

Luzinov and Balema first met more than 20 years ago at Iowa State. While they share a background in chemistry, it wasn’t science that brought them together.

First author: undergraduate internship at Ames Laboratory jump-starts research career

Tyler Del Rose participated in the U.S. Department of Energy’s SULI program at Ames Laboratory while an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan.

Polystyrene waste is everywhere, and it’s not biodegradable. Scientists just found a way to break it down.

Ames Laboratory and their partners from Clemson University have discovered a green, low-energy process to break down polystyrene

Shaking up topology with light

Ames Lab science featured in Nature Materials News & Views

Better Refractory Formulations through Accelerated Scientific Discovery

A tool to optimize powder formulations for metal additive manufacturing will greatly decrease time for new alloy development

Light-induced twisting of Weyl nodes switches on giant electron current

The discovery was made in a category of topological materials that holds great promise for spintronics, topological effect transistors, and quantum computing.

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.