Materials Science News
Latest Materials Science news and analysis — 30 articles tagged Materials Science on The Robotics Media.
- Discovered Materials Raises $9M Seed To Aim AI Agent Swarms At Cooler AI Chips — — YC-backed Discovered Materials pulled in $9M led by Lightspeed India to run swarms of AI research agents 24/7 in search of cooler substrate materials...
- China's ENN Group Breaks Ground On Helong-2 Hydrogen-Boron Fusion Plant — — ENN's 120-acre Langfang plant targets aneutronic fusion electricity by 2030 with a spherical-torus proton-boron design that skirts the D-T neutron pro...
- Proxima Fusion Commits €140M To Build Europe's First HTS Tape Plant — — Proxima's Lower Saxony MoU puts €140M behind a fusion-grade HTS tape plant to feed its Alpha demonstrator (20,000 km) and Stellaris power plant (40,00...
- Nexstrom Raises $12M Seed To Bring First 12-Inch 2D Semiconductors To Foundries — — Singapore startup Nexstrom raised $12M seed led by Xora Innovation to industrialise transition-metal dichalcogenide 2D chip materials on standard 300...
- MP Materials Signs Multi-Year Gadolinium Supply Deal With U.S. Aerospace & Defense Customer — — MP Materials will supply gadolinium oxide to an unnamed major U.S. aerospace and defense customer under a multi-year deal expected to be worth nine fi...
- Bristol And NC State Charge Up Liquid-Metal Droplets To Boost Soft Robot Muscles — — University of Bristol and North Carolina State University engineers have shown that a small electrical charge applied to a liquid-metal droplet can dr...
- IBM, Zuse Institute and TU Berlin Launch QOBLIB To Score Quantum Optimization — — A consortium led by IBM Quantum, the Zuse Institute Berlin, TU Berlin and Purdue University has launched QOBLIB, an open-source benchmarking library t...
- LLNL's Melting-Diamond Study Points To Triple Fusion Gain At NIF — — New Lawrence Livermore experiments published in Nature Physics on 14 August close a 20-year theory-experiment gap on diamond melting under extreme pre...
- Honda Backs Quemix To Push Quantum Algorithms Into Battery Materials — — Tokyo-based quantum algorithm startup Quemix disclosed on August 7 that it has received an investment from Honda through Honda Xcelerator Ventures, ex...
- Texas A&M Wins DOE Grant For Fish-Like Nanorobots That Harvest Lithium From Seawater — — Texas A&M engineers won a $1M Department of Energy award to build swimming micro/nanorobots that hunt lithium ions in seawater, aiming at a US battery...
- Ruhr University Fires Up CREATE: A Three-Robot Cell That Makes A Precast Concrete Panel In Three Hours — — Germany's Ruhr University Bochum has inaugurated CREATE — a globally unique robotic cell where three industrial robots weld rebar, pour concrete and o...
- CuspAI Raises $450M Series B, Launches 45-Partner AI Materials Foundry — — Cambridge-based CuspAI closed a $450M Series B co-led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, with Bezos Expeditions and the UK's Sovereign AI Fund on board, at a...
- Infineon Debuts RIC70115 Rad-Hard GaN HEMT Driver For Satellite Power Systems — — Infineon has introduced the RIC70115, a MIL-PRF-38535 qualified radiation-hardened gallium nitride HEMT driver aimed at LEO constellations and deep-sp...
- KIMS Unveils Harder, Cyanide-Free Silver Plating For EV Connectors — — South Korea's KIMS said it has developed a cyanide-free Ag-PTFE composite silver plating that is 23% harder than conventional silver coatings with a c...
- Max Planck Team Solves Dendrite Mystery Blocking Solid-State Batteries — — In a July 10 Nature paper, Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials researchers show that soft lithium dendrites crack solid electrolytes by hyd...
- Texas A&M Turns Methane Into Graphene Oxide With Hydrogen Byproduct — — Texas A&M engineers have shown a scalable way to make single-layer graphene oxide directly from methane using a plasma-water reactor, with hydrogen as...
- SandboxAQ Wins $500M CHIPS Award For Chip Materials AI — — SandboxAQ signed a $500 million CHIPS R&D agreement with the U.S. Commerce Department to use physics-based AI to discover critical semiconductor mater...
- NX Atomics And Sciaky Team Up To 3D-Print Small Modular Reactor Parts — — Indiana SMR startup NX Atomics has partnered with Chicago additive-manufacturing pioneer Sciaky to apply EBAM 3D-printing to small modular reactor com...
- Apoha Emerges With $36M Series A To Teach AI How Matter Behaves — — Oxford-rooted deep-tech startup Apoha closed a $36M Series A led by Singular for liquid intelligence AI built on a new wave-form data class for materi...
- KAIST Catalyst Unlocks World-Class Direct-Ammonia Fuel Cells — — A KAIST team has built a high-entropy catalyst that lets protonic ceramic fuel cells run directly on ammonia, hitting world-class power and 255 hours...