nanoscale views

I've been attending a lot of talks lately about AI/machine learning and multiscale modeling for materials design and control.  This is a...

Now that we're 6 weeks into the new year, I think it's worth it to do an incomplete roundup of where we are on US federal support of...

There seems to be a huge push lately in the tech world for the idea of placing data centers in space .  This is not just coming from Musk vi...

After seeing this latest extremely good video from Veritasium , and looking back through my posts, I realized that while I've referenced...

A friend pointed out that, while I've written many posts that have to do with superconductivity , I've never really done a concept p...

The Kondo effect is a neat piece of physics, an archetype of a problem involving strong electronic correlations and entanglement, with a lo...

This is a compilation of posts related to some basic concepts of the physics of materials and nanoscale physics.  I realized the other day t...

How do crystalline materials deform?  When you try to shear or stretch a crystalline solid, in the elastic  regime the atoms just slightly r...

Welcome to the new year! I've written previously (see here , item #3) about the extreme ultraviolet lithography tools used in modern co...

For those in the US:  Here is a link for submitting a public comment regarding OSTP 's request for information about  "Accelerating...

The Rice Advanced Materials Institute  has an open search in the area of computational materials.   The full position posting is here .  Ple...

Are we witnessing the irreversible deconstruction of an historically successful NSF program, not because of any clear strategy or planning b...

Some general science news:  The New York Times ran an interactive article this week that shows what we all know.  This past year was a very...