Not quite crystals and not quite a glass, quasicrystals are an oddity whose properties are not well understood – but now we ...

A material that emits less energy than it absorbs has the potential to save some of the sunlight wasted by solar collectors.

In patients who previously underwent refractive surgery or corneal inlay implantation, the small-aperture IC-8 Apthera IOL ...

In this work a metasurface able to provide anomalous refraction of a plane wave has been proposed. Unlike other designs, our structure is made of just one type of geometry, what makes the design very ...

New results published in the journal Physical Review Letters detail how a specially designed metamaterial was able to tip the ...

Materials science might seem very technical, but as a scientific discipline, it has led to many shifts in society over the ...

It is possible to make a material emit more radiation than it absorbs, violating the laws of physics in a way that could make ...

A new material developed at Penn State defies a fundamental law of physics, opening doors to highly efficient solar cells.

Microplastics, plastic fragments 5 millimeters or smaller, have been found in just about every part of the human body. To ...

Now, a team led by Professor Sascha Feldmann at EPFL’s Laboratory for Energy Materials has developed a high-sensitivity, ...

EPFL scientists have developed a new technique that lets researchers watch, with unprecedented sensitivity, how materials ...

A new X-ray-based method reveals how glasses yield upon irradiation, offering insights into their structural resilience and ...