MOF thin films reveal hidden dense packing, challenging decades of porous assumptions

Due to their high porosity, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are regarded as promising materials for innovative applications, ...
IEEE

Novel Structure of a Deep Neural Network-Based Material Removal Rate Prediction Model for Multizone Chemical Mechanical Planarization Process Control

Abstract: Multizone pressure chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), which is regarded as irreplaceable in semiconductor manufacturing, is highly dependent on a process control strategy. However, ...
Science Daily

Scientists just found a way to store massive data using light in 3 dimensions

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...
ArchDaily

Light Structures, Heavy Footprints? The Environmental Paradox of Lightweight Materials

Using massive s plates, often several centimeters thick and weighing tons, Richard Serra's sculptures convey an almost improbable sense of lightness. This effect does not result from a reduction of ...
Fast Company

Why Meta is building its high-tech South Carolina data center with an old-school material

In a greenfield industrial park in rural Aiken County, South Carolina, Meta is building a new $800 million data center that’s much like any of the other hyperscale data centers giant tech companies ...
Fast Company

Redwood Materials powers a data center with solar and used EV batteries

Here’s how Redwood Materials’ 900-acre Nevada campus repurposes used EV batteries to store solar energy for Crusoe. Around 20 acres of solar panels send power both directly to the data center and to ...
Bleeping Computer

Iron Mountain: Data breach mostly limited to marketing materials

Iron Mountain, a leading data storage and recovery services company, says that a recent breach claimed by the Everest extortion gang is limited to mostly marketing materials. Headquartered in ...
Purdue University

In Print: ‘Multiscale Structural Mechanics: Top-Down Modeling of Composite Structures Using Mechanics of Structure Genome’

“Multiscale Structural Mechanics: Top-Down Modeling of Composite Structures Using Mechanics of Structure Genome” delivers a unified approach to composites modeling based on the concept of structure ...
MIT Technology Review

AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world

Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment. The microwave-size instrument at Lila ...
Phys.org

Machine learning automates material analysis and design using X-ray spectroscopy data

Understanding the properties of different materials is an important step in material design. X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is an important technique for this, as it reveals detailed insights ...
The Conversation

Woven baskets aren’t just aesthetically pleasing – materials science research finds they’re sturdier and more resilient than stiff containers

People have been using flat, ribbonlike materials, such as reed strips, to make woven baskets for thousands of years. This weaving method has reemerged as a technique for engineers to create textile ...
Purdue University

New AI platform allows users to design and analyze composite materials, structures

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A new artificial intelligence platform has been launched to help users more quickly develop composite materials and structures without requiring in-depth technical jargon or ...