A retrospective exhibition of Tatsuaki Kuroda (1904-1982), a wood and lacquer artist and living national treasure, is being ...

Designers are experimenting with materials such as marble, brass and wood to create decor that isn’t just practical but also ...

But he couldn’t predict how swiftly this vision would materialize—or just how transformative its applications would prove to be. Diffusion generation process for a stable crystalline material having a ...

A research team led by scientists at Northwestern University has developed the first-ever two-dimensional mechanically interlocked material with high flexibility and strength. In the future ...

Materials innovation is one of the key drivers of major technological breakthroughs. The discovery of lithium cobalt oxide in the 1980s laid the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery technology.

Van Roijen and her team looked at different materials (including concrete, asphalt, plastics, wood, and brick) to see which materials could be best suited and most efficient for storing captured ...

Ultrathin materials made of a single layer of atoms have riveted scientists' attention since the discovery of the first such material—graphene, composed of carbon—about 20 years ago.

In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric current with zero resistance—was discovered in three distinct materials. Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon.