As the focus on energy resiliency and competitiveness increases, the development of advanced materials for next-generation, ...

ORNL explores UHTCs for fusion reactors due to their high melting points and resilience to extreme heat and radiation.

UDRI Advanced High-Temperature Materials researchers engage in the characterization, life prediction, and testing of ceramic and refractory materials. We can evaluate the strength, fracture, fatigue, ...

A study in Nature describes both the mechanism and the material conditions necessary for superfluorescence at room ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new technique that uses lasers to create ceramics that can withstand ultra-high temperatures, ...

The National Ignition Facility ... of a room-temperature superconducting material, though it had to be under enormous pressure. The results were published in Nature, a high-profile scientific ...

Experimental protocols differ, and the auto-ignition temperature of any solid material is a function of its composition, volume, density, and shape, as well as its time of exposure to the high ...

high-energy-density material on the right. This visualization highlights the role of electron scattering in moderating heat transport across interfaces, even in materials at extreme temperatures ...