Hacker News with Generative AI: Materials Science

Light-based photocatalytic system can break down PFAS at room temperature (phys.org)
Researchers at Colorado State University have found a new approach for breaking down PFAS—a group of human-made "forever" chemicals commonly used for their water-resistant properties that can carry health risks from long-term exposure.
Nickel Plating Handbook [pdf] (nickelinstitute.org)
Battery-Free Bioelectronic Implants (chemistryworld.com)
Spurred by advances in energy-harvesting materials, a new generation of advanced implantable biomedical devices is emerging that does away with the bulky battery.
Revealing the superconducting limit of twisted bilayer graphene (phys.org)
Graphene is a simple material containing only a single layer of carbon atoms, but when two sheets of it are stacked together and offset at a slight angle, this twisted bilayer material produces numerous intriguing effects, notably superconductivity.
First wooden satellite launched into space (phys.org)
The world's first wooden satellite has blasted off on a SpaceX rocket, its Japanese developers said Tuesday, part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
The first wooden satellite launched into space (theverge.com)
In a first for the world, scientists launched a satellite made from wood into space.
Wooden satellite heads to space in Mars exploration test (news.sky.com)
The world's first wooden satellite has been launched into space.
Ultraprecise method of aligning 3D semiconductor chips invented (techxplore.com)
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have invented a new way to align 3D semiconductor chips by shining a laser through concentric metalenses patterned on the chips to produce a hologram.
Graphene and chitosan sponge 10x more efficient at removing gold from e-waste (phys.org)
A team of chemists and materials scientists at the National University of Singapore, working with colleagues from Manchester University, in the U.K., and Guangdong University of Technology, in China, has developed a type of sponge made of graphene oxide and chitosan, that can be used to extract gold from electronic waste.
Room temp chirality switching and detection in a helimagnetic MnAu2 thin film (nature.com)
Helimagnetic structures, in which the magnetic moments are spirally ordered, host an internal degree of freedom called chirality corresponding to the handedness of the helix.
Emergence of ferromagnetism at onset Kondo breakdown in moiré bilayer lattices (phys.org)
New scientific fraud cases worry me: Now also in material science [video] (youtube.com)
Potatoes are better than human blood for making space bricks, scientists say (space.com)
Tailoring amorphous boron nitride for high-performance 2d electronics (nature.com)
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have garnered significant attention in recent years due to their atomically thin structure and unique electronic and optoelectronic properties.
LG Chem develops material capable of suppressing thermal runaway in batteries (ess-news.com)
South Korea’s LG Chem claims to have found a solution to this long-standing issue.
Homemade Machine Turns Bioplastics into Cooling Fabric [video] (youtube.com)
Disappearing Polymorph (wikipedia.org)
In materials science, a disappearing polymorph is a form of a crystal structure that is suddenly unable to be produced, instead transforming into a different crystal structure with the same chemical composition (a polymorph) during nucleation.
Organic thermoelectric device can harvest energy at room temperature (kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Fukuoka, Japan—Researchers have developed a new organic thermoelectric device that can harvest energy from ambient temperature.
New superconductor has record breaking current density (physicsworld.com)
Negative Resistance: Bio-Inspired Wires Amplify Their Own Signals (ieee.org)
Taking inspiration from biology and direction from some very weird math, a team of engineers have made electric wires that amplify signals traveling along them.
Twisted fibres capture more water from fog (physicsworld.com)
Twisted fibres are more efficient at capturing and transporting water from foggy air than straight ones.
Scientists announce new method for breaking down common form of plastic (yahoo.com)
Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined (worksinprogress.co)
Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and vastly cheaper than mined diamonds. Beating nature took decades of hard graft and millions of pounds of pressure.
Achieving optical transparency in live animals with absorbing molecules (labhorizons.co.uk)
Natural Piezoelectric Effect May Build Gold Deposits (arstechnica.com)
New forms of steel for stronger, lighter cars (knowablemagazine.org)
Electrified thermochemical systems with high-frequency metamaterial reactors (cell.com)
Ultra-thin sound-suppressing silk fabric works like noise-cancelling headphones (cbc.ca)
Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen (ethz.ch)
Engineers develop new two-dimensional, low-power- field-effect transistor (techxplore.com)