Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Durable Gel Innovation: Strong & Long-Lasting Performance

Researchers have developed a highly robust gel that includes large amounts of ionic liquid. The research team was led by Professor MATSUYAMA Hideto and…

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Exploring Liquid Shock Absorbers: The Future of Suspension

At first glance, colloids resemble homogeneous liquids such as milk or blood plasma. But in fact they consist of particles in suspension. Some colloids have…

Materials Sciences

Wood’s High-Tech Evolution: Unlocking Its Innovation Potential

Wood is not just a conventional material, it also has great innovation potential as a high-tech component and raw material for chemistry. This is one of the…

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Dendritic Fibrous Nanosilica: A Versatile Nanomaterial Solution

As discussed in this review, the unique fibrous morphology of the DFNS family of materials bestows them with several important properties that were brilliantly…

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How Wrinkles Enhance Heat Transfer in Pillared Graphene

Pillared graphene would transfer heat better if the theoretical material had a few asymmetric junctions that caused wrinkles, according to Rice University…

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UNIST Develops Fast-Charging High-Energy Electric-Car Battery

This breakthrough has been led by Professor Hoi Ri Moon in the School of Natural Science at UNIST, Professor Hyunchul Oh of Gyeongnam National University of…

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Microscopic Defects Enhance Battery Performance: New Insights

Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Science, National Science Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison WEI Seed Grant, Vilas Research Travel Awards

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Glass Marking Innovations Combat Product Piracy Effectively

Using a robust and industrially established marking laser, it will be possible to both individually and quickly mark products with a distinct certificate of…

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Highly Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Developed by UNIST Researchers

This study has been jointly led by Professor Jin Young Kim in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST in collaboration with Dong Suk Kim of…

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Effective Bonding Agents: Liquid Chromatography Insights

This is very useful for the development of more efficient functionalization processes. In addition, this analytic information is highly relevant for material…

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Lightweight Air Nozzles Enhance Efficiency in Flight

Active flow control has nothing to do with flowing rivers and the dead wake is actually air, and not really dead at all. Basically speaking: “We investigate…

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Metallic Nanoparticles Enhance Analysis of Volatile Compounds

Metallic nanoparticles, in particular the nanoparticles of gold and silver, are widely used in analytical chemistry. Amongst their uses is creating optical…

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Turning Materials Upside Down: A New Softening Process

PhD student Kumara Cordero-Edwards is the lead author of this work, carried out in collaboration with researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona…

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Microwave Oven Sparks New Electrode Materials Innovation

Power on the go is in demand: The higher the battery capacity, the larger the range of electric cars and the longer the operating time of cell phones and…

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New Material Paves Way for Future Digital Memories

Professor Martijn Kemerink of Linköping University has worked with colleagues in Spain and the Netherlands to develop the first material with conductivity…

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Osaka Researchers Create Slippery Surfaces for Everyday Use

The convenience of non-stick, Teflon-coated cookware is appreciated in kitchens worldwide, particularly by anyone doing the washing up. The chemical making up…

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