Researchers have demonstrated a new technique that allows "self-driving laboratories" to collect at least 10 times more data than previous techniques at record speed. The advance—which is published in ...

When scientists make the thin metal films used in electronics, optics and quantum technologies, they usually spend months tinkering with the temperature, composition and timing of the process, hoping ...

The De Jesús Báez lab seeks to understand how structural distortions can be engineered by tuning metamorphology, composition, and nucleation/growth pathways and how these alter oxidation states in ...

Plastic that conducts electricity might sound impossible. But there is a special class of materials known as “electronic polymers” that combines the flexibility of plastic with the functionality of ...

Automation of repetitive tasks has long been one of the main pillars of industry. The increase in computational resources, machine learning, and robotic hardware in the last decades has now allowed to ...

A research group has developed SPACIER, an advanced polymer material design tool that integrates machine learning with molecular simulations. As a proof of concept, the group successfully synthesized ...

These are exciting times to be a microbiologist with all the new options for rapid testing platforms and automated instrumentation. Making the move to an automated lab seems daunting, however. Once ...