Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Printing Innovations Boost Organic Electronics Quality Tenfold

The printing method is fast and works with a variety of organic materials to produce semiconductors of strikingly higher quality than what has so far been…

Materials Sciences

Innovative solutions for urban mining

Jai-Koo Park of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering is the director of the Mineral Processing and Environment Processing Lab at Hanyang University.

Materials Sciences

Indium-Free Transparent Conductive Layers: A Sustainable Innovation

The need for new, improved and sustainable materials which are available in large quantities is becoming ever more important in all branches of the high-tech…

Materials Sciences

Turning Cement Into Metal: Discover the New Formula

In a move that would make the Alchemists of King Arthur's time green with envy, scientists have unraveled the formula for turning liquid cement into liquid…

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Formation of Functionalized Nanowires by Control of Self-Assembly Using Multiple Modified Amyloid Peptides

Prof. Sakaguchi and his team in Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University,jointly with MANA PI Prof. Kohei Uosaki and a research group from the…

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Development of Coating Method that Accelerates Bonding with Bone by 3 Times

Dr. Masanori Kikuchi, Group Leader of the Bioceramics Group, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) and a research group at Tokyo Medical…

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New Insights Into Magnetic Skyrmions in Centrosymmetric Ferromagnets

Researchers using Lorentz electron microscopy have shown that magnetic skyrmions are spontaneously formed as nanomagnetic clusters in a ferromagnetic manganese…

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Stitching Defects Into World’s Thinnest Semiconductor

Through beautiful images of strikingly symmetric stars and triangles hundreds of microns across, they have uncovered key insights into the optical and…

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New Filtration Material Cuts Costs in Petroleum Refining

Created in the laboratory of Jeffrey Long, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, the material is a metal-organic framework, or MOF,…

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Innovation could bring flexible solar cells, transistors, displays

The electrode is made of silver nanowires covered with a material called graphene, an extremely thin layer of carbon. The hybrid material shows promise as a…

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Research Improves Dry Lubricant Used in Machinery and Biomedical Devices

Nearly everyone is familiar with the polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), otherwise known as Teflon, the brand name used by the chemical company DuPont. Famous for…

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DNA-Guided Assembly Yields Novel Ribbon-Like Nanostructures

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that DNA “linker” strands coax nano-sized rods to line up in way…

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Soft Matter Offers New Ways to Study How Materials Arrange

The doughnut-shaped droplets, a shape known as toroidal, are formed from two dissimilar liquids using a simple rotating stage and an injection needle. About a…

Materials Sciences

Low-Grade Cotton Offers More Ecologically-Friendly Way to Clean Oil Spills

Seshadri Ramkumar, lead author of the study and manager of the Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health…

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Stacking 2-D materials produces surprising results

Graphene has dazzled scientists, ever since its discovery more than a decade ago, with its unequalled electronic properties, its strength and its light weight….

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Unlocking New Uses For Carbon Nanotubes in Electronics

The atom-sized world of carbon nanotubes holds great promise for a future demanding smaller and faster electronic components. Nanotubes are stronger than steel…

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