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Alessandra Cabrera designs stage backdrops, hosts a podcast, runs a literary journal, and has spent five years studying materials at the atomic level. She is, in other words, not easy to categorize.

Newswise — In 2011, a small team at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) launched what would become the world's most-cited materials database. Today, the ...

Researchers have directly observed an unusual quantum state emerging at the boundary between an atomically thin material and ...

Yaghi hopes to lead team using AI to create materials to tackle global challenges such as carbon neutrality and water shortages Omar Yaghi, the winner of last year's Nobel Prize for chemistry, has ...

HOUSTON – (Oct. 10, 2025) – Geoffroy Hautier, the Trustee Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), one ...

For a long time, material development has focused on enhancing performance and reducing costs. Efforts have been directed toward making products lighter, tougher, better insulated, more beautiful, ...

Ioanna Kakoulli, a professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, died Jan. 1, 2026, in her home country of Cyprus after a prolonged battle with colon cancer ...

Doctoral student Md Sazzadul Alam Rahat was drawn to materials science and engineering by its interdisciplinary nature. As part of Associate Professor Jonathan Pham's Soft Materials and Interface ...

Geoffroy Hautier, the Trustee Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering at Rice University, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Fewer than 0.5% of APS members ...