Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

High Barrier Lidding Film Seals Directly to Mono APET Trays

Compared to traditional lidding films with an additional LDPE sealing layer, which is co-extruded or laminated to the APET structure, the use of a co-extruded…

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Single-pixel 'multiplex' captures elusive terahertz images

A novel metamaterial enables a fast, efficient and high-fidelity terahertz radiation imaging system capable of manipulating the stubborn electromagnetic waves,…

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Carbon-Fiber Honeycombs: A Sustainable Alternative to Balsa Wood

In wind farms across North America and Europe, sleek turbines equipped with state-of-the-art technology convert wind energy into electric power. But tucked…

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Morphable Surfaces: Reducing Air Resistance in Sports Gear

There is a story about how the modern golf ball, with its dimpled surface, came to be: In the mid-1800s, it is said, new golf balls were smooth, but became…

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Super-Stretchable Yarn Made from Graphene Innovation

The researchers made a thin film of graphene oxide by chemically exfoliating graphite into graphene flakes, which were then mixed with water and concentrated…

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New Organic Substances Show Quantum Spin Liquid State

Water loses kinetic energy as it is cooled, and when water molecules become unable to move, water becomes solid (ice). Similarly, electron spins in magnetic…

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Intermixing Molecules Boosts Solar Cell Energy Efficiency

This discovery is expected to reveal the energy conversion mechanism in organic solar cells and thereby facilitate the establishment of guidelines to design…

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Room-Temperature Printing for Organic Thin-Film Transistors

Printed electronics, the field in which electronic devices are produced by printing functional materials in ink form without the need for large and expensive…

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MIT researchers develop new ultralight, ultrastiff 3D printed materials

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a material with these properties using…

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New ultrastiff, ultralight material developed

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Efficient 3D Metal Parts Manufacturing Using SLM Technology

Selective laser melting (SLM) is a powder-based, additive manufacturing process where a 3D part is produced, layer by layer, using a high-energy laser beam to…

Materials Sciences

Nanoscale Composites Enhance MRI Imaging Capabilities

Submicroscopic particles that contain even smaller particles of iron oxide could make magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) a far more powerful tool to detect and…

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New Water Layer Innovation for Clearer Glass Views

When it comes to fogged up glassware or windows, the best way to keep a clear view seems to be by wiping the water droplets away constantly or having coatings…

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One-Step Process Transforms Touchscreen Circuitry Production

All that concerns them is that they can happily swipe and tap away. To make the touchscreens work, they are provided on their surface with microscopically…

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Developers Unveil Conductive Coatings for Flexible Touchscreens

That much is clear to anyone who has tried sitting down with a mobile phone in their back pocket: the displays of the innumerable phones and pods are rigid and…

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New Composite Material Resists Corrosion Under Stress

The INM from Saarbruecken will be one of the few German research institutions at the TechConnect World trade fair on 16 and 17 June in Washington DC, USA,…

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