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U.S. Department of War Commits $150 Million Loan to Niron Magnetics to Accelerate Domestic Rare Earth-Free Magnet Production
Department of War USA Overview The U.S. Department of War's Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) has signed a conditional loan commitment of $150 million with Niron Magnetics. This funding is designated for the construction of Niron's first... -
Argonne National Lab Accelerates Materials Discovery by Real-Time X-ray Data Analysis with AI and Robotics
Argonne National Laboratory USA Overview Argonne National Laboratory is dramatically accelerating materials science discovery through its DONUT system, enabling real-time X-ray data analysis. This initiative is central to an autonomous d... -
Sherwin-Williams Launches Robust ControlTech Chemical-Resistant Coating System for Secondary Containment Demands
Coatings World USA Overview Sherwin-Williams Protective and Marine Coatings has introduced 'ControlTech,' a new chemical-resistant coating system designed for robust protection in secondary chemical containment areas. This system aims to... -
CuspAI’s AI Materials Foundry Screens Trillions of Molecules in Months, Demonstrating Rapid Development of Innovative Materials
Trend Hunter International Overview CuspAI is accelerating AI-powered materials discovery through its 'AI Materials Foundry' platform, which integrates AI, scientific data, computational resources, and physical labs. The company's MIRA a... -
Discovered Materials Secures $9 Million Seed Funding and Unveils New AI Benchmark to Accelerate Semiconductor Material Discovery
Semiecosystem - Substack USA Overview Discovered Materials, an AI-driven materials discovery startup, has raised $9 million in seed funding to accelerate the discovery of new semiconductor materials using AI agents. Concurrently, the com... -
AI and Autonomous Labs Propel Semiconductor Material Discovery from Linear to Multidimensional, Breaking Physical Limits in Chip Manufacturing
Robotics & Automation News USA Overview The integration of AI and autonomous laboratories is poised to revolutionize semiconductor material discovery, accelerating the process from traditional linear manual approaches to highly efficient... -
High Thermoelectric Performance Achieved in K-Doped CaCd2Sb2 Zintl Phase via Carrier Concentration and Anionic Framework Tuning
ACS Publications USA Overview This research focuses on achieving high thermoelectric performance in the CaCd2Sb2 Zintl phase by tuning the carrier concentration and anionic framework. Zintl-phase compounds are considered promising thermo... -
Chinese Researchers Develop Lightweight Laser Receiver for Drones, Boosting Flight Duration via Perovskite and Thermoelectric Materials
Optics & Photonics News (citing Matter & Light) China Overview Researchers in China have engineered a lightweight receiver for drones that converts laser light into usable power. This tandem device uses a perovskite material to absorb mo... -
Active Metasurfaces Achieve 33.5nm BIC Resonance Shift via Sb2S3 Phase Transition, Enabling Tunable Amplified Photoluminescence and Single-Photon Emission
MDPI Switzerland Overview This research demonstrates a metasurface supporting tunable bound states in the continuum (BIC) resonances in the visible regime, achieving experimental Q-factors up to 206 in an amorphous state. The metasurface... -
Laser Scanning Power Controls Corrosion Resistance of AlCoCrFeNi High-Entropy Alloy Coatings Produced by Extremely High-Speed Laser Cladding
ICCK (International Conference on Corrosion & Coating) Unknown Overview This paper investigates the effect of laser scanning power on the microstructure and electrochemical corrosion resistance of AlCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy (HEA) coat...
