Materials Science

Solving a 140-Year-Old Riddle

Solving a 140-Year-Old Riddle

17.02.2021

Materials Science, Organic Chemistry

Profs. Leslie Leiserowitz and Meir Lahav will be awarded this year's Wolf Prize in Chemistry

Freezing with Lasers Creates Aligned Ice Crystals

Freezing with Lasers Creates Aligned Ice Crystals

12.10.2020

Nano Physics, Materials Science

Supercooled water zapped in just the right way enabled perfect control over the process

Ancient Hominins Used Fire to Make Stone Tools

Ancient Hominins Used Fire to Make Stone Tools

05.10.2020

Robotics and Machine Learning, Materials Science, Scientific Archaeology

A study of these tools suggests skilled control over heating flint to produce different forms

Carbon Dioxide Helps to Solve the Mystery of Water’s Instant Electrofreezing

Carbon Dioxide Helps to Solve the Mystery of Water’s Instant Electrofreezing

13.09.2020

Materials Science

Experiments on water freezing in the presence of an electric charge may help improve cloud seeding and lead to other practical applications...

landau level tomography

Magic Material Made with a Twist

27.08.2020

Particle Physics, Quantum Physics, Materials Science

A newly identified kind of disorder may lead to new "twistronics"

Fluorescent image of artificial cells on a chip. The differences in genetic composition between cells produced the different colors, which reveal stages in building parts of a virus

Artificial Cells Produce Parts of Viruses for Safe Studies

20.07.2020

Nanoscience, Materials Science, Viruses & Microorganisms, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

The Weizmann Institute of Science group demonstrated the production of protein assembly lines on a silicon chip

colorful circles

Cracking Non-Classical Crystal Formation

16.06.2020

Nanoscience, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry

Some crystals do not come together as predicted. New research explains why

topological diagram

Three Research Groups, Two Kinds of Electronic Properties, One Material

10.06.2020

Nano Physics, Theoretical Physics, Materials Science

Combining materials science, experimental and theoretical physics, a long-term study paves the way to new designed materials with multiple electrical...

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Crystal Grow?

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Crystal Grow?

08.06.2020

Nanoscience, Materials Science, Organic Chemistry

Weizmann Institute Scientists have created unique, paradoxical, “yo-yo” crystals

Electric on the Outside

Electric on the Outside

26.05.2020

Nanoscience, Materials Science

Researchers find an electric effect in an unlikely place

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