News: Research

A group of scientists and engineers that includes researchers from The University of Texas at Austin has created a new class of materials that can absorb low energy light and transform it into higher energy light.

Feliciano Giustino leads effort to turn computational predictions into new materials.

Adding charge acceptors can slow electron transfer in some light-activated materials.

‘Green’ reducing agents could help tackle climate change and treat contaminated water.

UT Austin researchers' new acoustic component, made of aluminum nitride and configured into periodic phononic crystals, allows engineers to direct high frequency elastic waves along predefined paths, including sharp turns and splits, without losing signal.

A new sodium-based battery material is highly stable, capable of recharging as quickly as a lithium-ion battery and might deliver more energy than current battery technologies.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers are working on a radically new kind of computer called a neuromorphic computer, inspired by the human brain.

Xiaoqin Elaine Li explores how to control light emission from ultrathin materials stacked at slight angles, a single photon at a time

Magic angle graphene produces switchable patterns of superconductivity, UT physicist Allan MacDonald found.

Researchers from the U.S. and Japan have demonstrated that they can store and retrieve information magnetically in a new class of materials.