Materials Sciences

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Novel Gold-Based Superconductor Discovered by Top Researchers

Led by Masaaki Isobe, a team consisting of Hiroyuki Yoshida, Koji Kimoto, Masao Arai and Eiji Muromachi recently searched for novel substances that lack…

Materials Sciences

Perfecting Seams: Innovations in Laser Welding Textiles

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…

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Flexible Glass Innovation: Discover Corning® Willow® Glass

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…

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Molecules Go Fractal: Exploring Glassy States of Matter

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…

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Higher Solar-Cell Efficiency Achieved with Zinc-Oxide Coating

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have achieved the highest efficiency ever in a 9 millimeter-squared solar cell made of gallium arsenide….

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3D Biodegradable Hydrogel: A New Approach to Gum Treatment

Gum problems negatively affect the quality of life of children and adults. To ease these conditions, researchers at the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in…

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Creating New Materials Layer by Layer: A Scalable Technique

 This highly scalable technique, often used in the semiconductor industry, can produce new materials with unique properties that could be applied to solar…

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Surprising material could play role in saving energy

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…

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Repeated Self-Healing Now Possible in Composite Materials

Internal damage in fiber-reinforced composites, materials used in structures of modern airplanes and automobiles, is difficult to detect and nearly impossible…

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Inexpensive Water-Splitting Photocatalyst Transforms Sunlight

Technology that allows the direct conversion of sunlight, an ultimate renewable energy, into chemical energies (i.e., fuels) that can be condensed and…

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World's first successful visualisation of key coenzyme

A Japanese research team led by Drs. Hirokazu Komatsu and Katsuhiko Ariga of the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, in collaboration with…

Materials Sciences

New Insights into Strontium Titanate Thin Film Growth Process

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…

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KorroPad: Fast Testing for Stainless Steel Surface Quality

The pleasure of many designs or components made of stainless steel sometimes declines after a short time. Instead of a beautiful metallic shininess,…

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Tiny Particles Enhance Product Verification Against Fraud

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,…

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Glasses Strong as Steel: Fast Method for Finding BMG Alloys

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…

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"Spacetex" project takes functional textiles into outer space

Experiments in zero gravity help with the development of innovative textiles for extreme conditions on Earth

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