Global electricity use is increasing rapidly and must be addressed sustainably. Developing new materials could give us much more efficient solar cell materials than at present; materials so thin and flexible that they could encase anything from mobile phones or entire buildings. Using computer simulation and machine learning, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have now taken an important step towards understanding and handling halide perovskites, among the most promising but notoriously enigmatic materials.

Many applications—from drug discovery and diagnostics to cell engineering and gene modulation—require delivering biomolecules into large numbers of cells and rapidly evaluating the outcomes. The challenge is twofold: achieve intracellular delivery at scale across diverse cells and cargos, and obtain quantitative results fast enough to keep pace with that delivery.

Researchers at Kumamoto University （Japan）have unveiled a groundbreaking solid electrolyte material that could revolutionize fuel cell technology. Derived from natural clay minerals, this innovative membrane offers high proton conductivity and exceptional hydrogen gas barrier properties—unlocking new possibilities for low- to mid-temperature fuel cells.

Professor Lim Chwee Teck, Director of the Institute for Health Innovation and Technology at the National University of Singapore and NUS Society Professor, has been elected an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering – one of the most prestigious honours in the global engineering community.

Using magnetic cameras, researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have examined blood flow in an artificial heart in real time. The results make it possible to design the heart in a way to reduce the risk of blood clots and red blood cells breakdown, a common problem in today’s artificial hearts. The study, published in Scientific Reports, was done in collaboration with the company Scandinavian Real Heart AB, which is developing an artificial heart.

Dr. Shiki Machida from the Chiba Institute of Technology revealed that the scale of material heterogeneity in the upper mantle caused by mantle plumes is less than 10 km—much smaller than previously thought. This suggests that materials inside the Earth mix and recycle faster than expected, offering new insights into the Earth’s internal structure.

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A joint research team led by Dr. Wooseok Song at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) and Professor Dae Ho Yoon at Sungkyunkwan University successfully developed a new broadband photodetector material that can sense a wider range of wavelengths compared to existing commercial materials, and achieved cost-effective synthesis on a 6-inch wafer-scale substrate.