Microscopy technique could help researchers design safer reactor vessels or hydrogen storage tanks.

MIT researchers use resonant X-ray scattering measurements to reveal unexpected “Wigner glass” in desirable superconducting material.

A bacterial protein's affinity for the rare-earth metals used in smartphones could make it a great way to detect and collect the materials.

Varying the spacing between nanotwin boundaries at the atomic level produces dramatic improvements in a metal's strength.

At the Materials Day Symposium, researchers focus on tools that probe atomic structures in action to yield better designs for metals, solar cells, and polymers.

Manganese, an inexpensive metal used in soda cans could advance one of the most promising sources of renewable energy: hydrogen fuel cells.