Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

3D Metallic Structures at Nanoscale: New Manufacturing Breakthrough

Scientists from Aalto University in Finland and the University of Washington in the US have just demonstrated this to be possible. By combining ion processing…

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Silicon Nano-Ribbons’ Magnetic Properties Confirmed by ORNL Study

This was a key finding of a team of scientists led by Paul Snijders of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The researchers used scanning…

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Research Team Develops Single-Crystal Pump for Miniaturized DNA Forensics

“The pump represents a giant leap in miniaturization,” said biology professor Greg Hampikian, who leads the team along with materials science professor Peter…

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Scientists Discover That Shape Matters in DNA Nanoparticle Therapy

This study, published in the Oct. 12 online edition of Advanced Materials, is also noteworthy because this gene therapy technique does not use a virus to carry…

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Penn Researchers Find New Way to Mimic the Color and Texture of Butterfly Wings

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has found a way to generate this kind of “structural color” that has the added benefit of another trait…

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Penn Researchers Find New Way to Prevent Cracking in Nanoparticle Films

The research was led by graduate student Jacob Prosser and assistant professor Daeyeon Lee, both of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in…

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Researchers Develop Method to Study the Atomic Structure of Complex Surfaces

Scientists from the Canadian Centre for Microscopy on the McMaster campus, working with a colleague from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France,…

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New modular Instron<sup>®</sup> CEAST Melt Flow Testers perform measurements according to ISO 1133-2

They provide the user with increased convenience for easy and accurate measurement of the flow properties of plastics according to ASTM D1238 and ISO 1133….

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Nanoparticles: Making gold economical for sensing

Cancer, food pathogens and biosecurity threats can all be detected using a sensing technique called surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). To meet…

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Researchers unravel the secret to making cheap, high-density data storage

Self-assembly is a a cheap, high-volume, high-density patterning technique. It allows manufacturers to use the method on a variety of different surfaces. This…

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Malaysian Researchers Develop Durable Wood-Plastic Composite

Wood-plastic composites (WPCs) are one of the fastest growing construction components in the wood composites industry. Their popularity is due to low…

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New Discovery in Ultra-Fast Domain Wall Manipulation

An international team of researchers has found at the free electron laser FLASH a surprising effect that leads in ferromagnetic materials to a spatially…

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Scratching the Surface: Stanford Engineers Examine UV Effects on Skin Mechanics

Reinhold Dauskardt, PhD, of Stanford’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been studying skin for years. But when he sent his students to look…

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Building 3D Structures from a 2D Template

In modern telecommunications, light carries digital information over kilometers within seconds. Adapted optical materials control the light signals. In the AFM…

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Solvent Mixtures Impact Organic Solar Cell Structure

Polymer-based solar cells consist of two domains, known as the acceptor and the donor layers. Excitons, the energy particles created by solar cells, must be…

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Scientists Discover Way to Remove Defects in Materials

This effect, which carries important implications for improving the conductivity of electronics and other realms of materials science, was predicted six years…

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