Led by Masaaki Isobe, a team consisting of Hiroyuki Yoshida, Koji Kimoto, Masao Arai and Eiji Muromachi recently searched for novel substances that lack…
As part of the research project (AiF No. 17031 N) “Absorber systems for the laser welding of textiles”, scientists at the Hohenstein Institute (Bönnigheim) and…
Flexible glass, such as ultra-slim Corning® Willow® Glass, produced at thicknesses of 100 micron and 200 micron has the ability to bend, while maintaining…
Colorful church windows, beads on a necklace and many of our favorite plastics share something in common — they all belong to a state of matter known as…
Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have achieved the highest efficiency ever in a 9 millimeter-squared solar cell made of gallium arsenide….
Gum problems negatively affect the quality of life of children and adults. To ease these conditions, researchers at the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in…
This highly scalable technique, often used in the semiconductor industry, can produce new materials with unique properties that could be applied to solar…
One strategy for addressing the world's energy crisis is to stop wasting so much energy when producing and using it, which can happen in coal-fired power…
Internal damage in fiber-reinforced composites, materials used in structures of modern airplanes and automobiles, is difficult to detect and nearly impossible…
Technology that allows the direct conversion of sunlight, an ultimate renewable energy, into chemical energies (i.e., fuels) that can be condensed and…
A Japanese research team led by Drs. Hirokazu Komatsu and Katsuhiko Ariga of the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, in collaboration with…
Led by Assistant Professor Takeo Ohsawa of NIMS and Associate Professor Taro Hitosugi of Tohoku University's AIMR, a research team has developed a new advanced…
The pleasure of many designs or components made of stainless steel sometimes declines after a short time. Instead of a beautiful metallic shininess,…
Many strategies have been developed to try to label legitimate products and prevent illegal trade — but these tags are often too easy to fake, are unreliable,…
Using traditional methods, it usually takes a full day to identify a single metal alloy appropriate for making BMGs. The new method allows researchers to…
Experiments in zero gravity help with the development of innovative textiles for extreme conditions on Earth