One longstanding problem has sidelined life-saving drugs, stalled next-generation batteries, and kept archaeologists from ...

The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids is dedicated to the discovery of new materials with unusual properties. To this end, researchers must have a fundamental understanding of the ...

Michael Demkowicz studies the fundamental processes by which solids change their atomic structure when driven far from equilibrium, e.g. when plastically deformed, bombardment by energetic ions, ...

Consequently, the atomic structure of the interfacial YSZ ... Unveiling the high-temperature degradation mechanism of solid oxide electrolysis cells through direct imaging of nanoscale interfacial ...

Alloys are classified according to how the metal elements are mixed, and one of the states is "solid solution", in which the elements are mixed at the atomic level. On the other hand, many ...