In the tug-of-war between order and chaos within multielemental carbides, entropy eventually claims victory over enthalpy by ...

The compound is stable only at extreme temperatures, suggesting it forms through an entropy-driven reaction. On cooling, it ...

A new class of 2D materials known as MXenes holds the key to next-generation applications, such as consumer electronics and ...

But a recent discovery by a multi-university collaboration of researchers, led by Drexel University researcher Yury Gogotsi, PhD, and Drexel alumnus Babak Anasori, PhD, who is now an associate ...

This rising din threatens to drown out the ocean’s own voices—songs so well-structured that a leopard seal’s ( Hydrurga ...

A new sustainable method has been developed to break down keratins, transforming leftover wool and feathers into useful products. Every year, textile and meat-processing operations generate billions ...

Two-dimensional nanomaterials only a few atoms thick are being pushed to new frontiers, with scientists synthesizing MXenes that pack up to nine transition metals into a single ultrathin sheet. The ...

Scientists have taken a big step forward in the design of nanomaterials that could withstand some of the harshest conditions ...

Max Planck really kicked off a whole new way of thinking about the universe. Before him, physics was pretty much all about ...

While Max Planck is rightly celebrated as the father of quantum theory, his scientific curiosity didn’t stop there. He was a physicist who really dug into the nitty-gritty of how the universe works, ...