Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Iowa State, Ames Lab Researcher Developing New Computing Approach to Materials Science

As he sees it, managing computing tools to discover new materials involves harnessing the key characteristics of data: volume, velocity, variety and veracity…

Materials Sciences

Fungi Treatment Transforms Modern Violins Into Stradivarius Sound

Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) in St. Gallen, Switzerland has succeeded in…

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Nano-Velcro: A New Way to Capture Heavy Metals Safely

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…

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Fraunhofer Partners with KH Chemicals on Single-Walled Nano Tubes

On August 16 Ivica Kolaric, head of the department “Functional materials” and head of Fraunhofer Office for Process Engineering of Functional Materials and…

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Tough gel stretches to 21 times its length, recoils, and heals itself

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…

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Waste Cooking Oil Lowers Bioplastic Production Costs

The Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) family of polyesters is synthesized by a wide variety of bacteria as an energy source when their carbon supply is plentiful….

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Functional materials: Two ways to kill

The discovery of graphene has brought much excitement to the nanotechnology community. Much of this excitement is due to the possibility of deriving…

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Development of Coating Technique by High Speed Particles with Velocity of 1,000m/s

National Institute for Materials Science Kagoshima University Plasma Giken Co., Ltd.A research group in the NIMS High Temperature Materials Unit, in joint work…

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Photonics: Think thin, think vibrant

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…

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Driving an Electron Spin Vortex “Skyrmion” with a Microcurrent

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…

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Discovery of New Colossal Magnetoresistance Mechanism

A research group of Dr. Hiroya Sakurai, Senior Researcher, Dr. Taras Kolodiazhnyi, Senior Researcher, and Dr. Yuichi Michiue, Principal Researcher of the…

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Success in Growth of Regularly-Ordered Nanometer-scale Crystalline Thin Film Using 3D Porous Material

Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research InstituteKyoto UniversityNational Institute for Materials ScienceA joint research group consisting of the Japan…

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Eco-Friendly Corrosion Protection for Rivets Unveiled

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…

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Researchers develop method to grow artificial tissues with embedded nanoscale sensors

A multi-institutional research team has developed a method for embedding networks of biocompatible nanoscale wires within engineered tissues. These…

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ORNL’s New Tech Enhances Uranium Extraction From Seawater

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,…

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New Catalyst Enhances Glass Alternative Production Efficiency

University of Oregon chemists have identified a catalyst that could dramatically reduce the amount of waste made in the production of methyl methacrylate, a…

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