See how smart skins for buildings that react to environmental cues like heat or light could make the structures far more energy efficient.

Too much stress in widely used lithium iron phosphate battery cathodes can open cracks and quickly degrade batteries.

Love gold but not how heavy it is? Researchers used plastic to create an incredibly lightweight 18-carat gold that weighs about five to 10 times less.

A new nano-sized sensor can measure the stresses and strains of materials at high pressures to see when they fail and hunt for new states of matter.

Using 2D materials and 3D integration practices could take integrated chips beyond their limits and keep Moore's Law going indefinitely, researchers say.

Researchers had all but given up on emerging organic solar cell technology, but chemical tweaks brought them back from the brink. Here's how it worked.

The polymer has many potential uses, including powering pacemakers without needing new batteries and keeping street lights on with energy from passing cars.

A new kind of semiconductor made from barium zirconium sulfide instead of silicon could pave the way for better solar panels, LEDs, and sensors.

A new kind of adhesive works just as well as plastic-based versions but degrades in less than a year instead of lasting forever.

Researchers can control the shape of a new material called a magnetic shape memory polymer with magnetic fields, which could be useful for future robots.