Tag: material science

Big Reaction: Nanoscale etching a penny

Big Reaction: Nanoscale etching a penny

My lab is located at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL), just up the hill from UC Berkeley. The lab is home to a wide range of cool research and cutting edge technology. The demo shown here, produced by the Molecular Foundry at LBL, showcases two different techniques for creating nanoscale features.

Fresh off the ArXiv: Data mining for better materials synthesis

Fresh off the ArXiv: Data mining for better materials synthesis

Materials design–where the material constituents and synthesis method are determined based on the desired functionality of the final product–remains one of the Holy Grails of material science. A new software tool developed primarily at Oak Ridge National Laboratory aims to tackle the problem through a combination of data mining, crowd sourcing, and machine learning.