Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Amended German Translation of Dangerous Goods Recommendations

The corrected and revised 2015 version of the German translation of the Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods – Manual of Tests and Criteria –…

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New Artificial Blood Vessels Developed Using Advanced Techniques

By combining micro-imprinting and electro-spinning techniques, researchers at Shanghai University’s Rapid Manufacturing Engineering Center have developed a…

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NYU’s Microscopic Monitoring May Yield Big Advances in Production of Consumer Products & Pharmaceuticals

“We can now look at each of the particles in a developing dispersion to see how the chemical reaction is progressing and whether the particles are turning out…

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Silica-Coated Nanoparticles: Innovations in Catalysis and Optics

Silica-coated noble metal nanoparticles have attracted great interest because they can be used as catalysts as well as in calorimetric and optical…

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New Josephson Junctions in Atomic-Layered Superconductors

A research group at the NIMS International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics and a research team at the Institute for Solid State Physics of the…

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Stay Warm: Innovative Clothing for Changing Weather

“There's no such thing as bad weather – just the wrong clothing”. Every year, sudden changes in the weather and icy temperatures make this truism topical once…

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Unlocking Magnetoception: A New Sense for Navigation

Magnetoception is a sense which allows bacteria, insects and even vertebrates like birds and sharks to detect magnetic fields for orientation and navigation….

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Winding Borders in Graphene: Unlocking New Manufacturing Potential

Far from being a defect, a winding thread of odd rings at the border of two sheets of graphene has qualities that may prove valuable to manufacturers,…

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Unlocking Carbon Nanotubes: Enhancing Structural Ceramics

Ever since their discovery, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been considered the ultimate additive to improve the mechanical properties of structural ceramics,…

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New Method Enhances Band Gap Tunability for Materials Design

If you can't find the ideal material, then design a new one.

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Tuning Friction in Ionic Solids: Insights from ORNL Research

The research, which demonstrates a new physical effect, was undertaken at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at…

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New Method Boosts Color Range in Tiny Aluminum Nanodisks

A scheme for greatly increasing the number of colors that can be produced by arrays of tiny aluminum nanodisks has been demonstrated by A*STAR scientists1.

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'Bulletproof' battery: Kevlar membrane for safer, thinner lithium rechargeables

The innovation is an advanced barrier between the electrodes in a lithium-ion battery.

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Ionic Scaffolding’s Role in Calcium Carbonate Crystal Formation

Nature packs away carbon in chalk, shells and rocks made by marine organisms that crystallize calcium carbonate. Now, research suggests that the soft, organic…

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Improvements in Transistors Will Make Flexible Plastic Computers a Reality

The scientists reviewed the latest developments in research on photoactive organic field-effect transistors; devices that incorporate organic semi-conductors,…

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Scientists 'bend' elastic waves with new metamaterials that could have commercial applications

Sound waves passing through the air, objects that break a body of water and cause ripples, or shockwaves from earthquakes all are considered “elastic” waves….

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