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Superionic Crystals Can Make Better Rechargeable Batteries
Melting and Recrystallization Established Unambiguously in Shock-Compressed Silicon
Casting Light on New Benefits of Perovskite Solar Cells
Probing the Powering of Contractions in Heart Failure (UW Medicine Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine article)
New Polymer Films Conduct Heat Instead of Trapping It (MIT News article)
Prof. Tai-Chang Chiang of UIUC to Receive the 2019 APSUO Compton Award
The Stresses and Strains of a New Type of Chemistry
Optical “Tweezers” Combine with X-rays to Enable Analysis of Crystals in Liquids (Argonne National Laboratory press release)
Supercrystal: A Hidden Phase of Matter Created by a Burst of Light (Penn State University press release)
Achieving Picosecond Control of Hard X-rays with MEMS Optics
Toward a Universal Therapy against Ebola Virus
MOFs for Methane Manipulation
Controlling Thermal Conductivity of Polymers with Light University of Illinois College of Engineering press release
Layer-By-Layer Crystals: Creating Memories as They Grow
A New Molecule Could Help Put the STING on Cancer
Unleashing Perovskites’ Potential for Solar Cells (Georgia Tech/MIT/University of California, San Diego, press releases)
Unexpected Nanoclusters in Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolytes
How Surface Ligands Influence the Lattice Dynamics of Cadmium Selenide Quantum Dot Nanoparticles
Sound Waves Let Quantum Systems “Talk” to One Another (University of Chicago “uchicago news” article)
Adding It Up: Three Routes to Better 3-D Printing
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