materials-science

AI is giving electron microscopes superhuman vision—resolving atomic structures, identifying defects, and automating analyses that once took weeks.

At the nanoscale, materials behave differently from their bulk form — gold turns red, carbon becomes stronger than steel, and quantum effects dominate.

Plastics are engineered at the molecular level — long chains of repeating units that give materials their remarkable properties and their persistence problem.

Nanotechnology engineers matter at the level of individual atoms. It's already in your sunscreen, cancer treatments, and phone.

AI is compressing decades of trial-and-error chemistry into weeks, helping scientists discover new compounds with unprecedented precision.

ISS experiments produce metal alloys and composite materials with properties impossible on Earth, advancing aerospace, electronics, and clean energy.

How chemists discovered polymers revolutionized materials science