As he sees it, managing computing tools to discover new materials involves harnessing the key characteristics of data: volume, velocity, variety and veracity…
Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) in St. Gallen, Switzerland has succeeded in…
Mercury, when dumped in lakes and rivers, accumulates in fish, and often ends up on our plates. A Swiss-American team of researchers led by Francesco Stellacci…
On August 16 Ivica Kolaric, head of the department “Functional materials” and head of Fraunhofer Office for Process Engineering of Functional Materials and…
A team of experts in mechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering at Harvard have created an extremely stretchy and tough gel that may pave the way to…
The Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) family of polyesters is synthesized by a wide variety of bacteria as an energy source when their carbon supply is plentiful….
The discovery of graphene has brought much excitement to the nanotechnology community. Much of this excitement is due to the possibility of deriving…
National Institute for Materials Science Kagoshima University Plasma Giken Co., Ltd.A research group in the NIMS High Temperature Materials Unit, in joint work…
Flat panel displays, mobile phones and many digital devices require thin, efficient and low-cost light-emitters for applications. The pixels that make up the…
RIKEN, the University of Tokyo, and NIMS succeeded in forming a skyrmion crystal, in which electron spin is aligned in a vortex shape, in a microdevice using…
A research group of Dr. Hiroya Sakurai, Senior Researcher, Dr. Taras Kolodiazhnyi, Senior Researcher, and Dr. Yuichi Michiue, Principal Researcher of the…
Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research InstituteKyoto UniversityNational Institute for Materials ScienceA joint research group consisting of the Japan…
Fraunhofer FEP has developed a vacuum process for coating rivets and other small parts as bulk products.New lightweight design concepts help to reduce the…
A multi-institutional research team has developed a method for embedding networks of biocompatible nanoscale wires within engineered tissues. These…
The combination of ORNL's high-capacity reusable adsorbents and a Florida company's high-surface-area polyethylene fibers creates a material that can rapidly,…
University of Oregon chemists have identified a catalyst that could dramatically reduce the amount of waste made in the production of methyl methacrylate, a…