Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Bone tissue engineering: Attaching proteins for better regeneration

Current treatments for bone defects and bone tissue regeneration have significant limitations. Now a new method that immobilises a fusion protein in a hybrid…

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Photonics: Sensing with holes

The detection of small quantities of molecules is important for a myriad of applications, ranging from gas sensing to biomedical diagnostics. The majority of…

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Success in Self-Assembly of Quantum Dots with World’s Highest Density

Dr. Takaaki Mano, a Senior Researcher, Dr. Masafumi Jo, a Post Doctoral Fellow, and Dr. Yoshiki Sakuma, Group Leader of the Quantum Nanostructures Group,…

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Smart Alloys – new research group at the Max-Planck-Institut Düsseldorf

The group is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant, awarded in January 2012 to Prof. Dierk Raabe and Prof. Jörg Neugebauer, both directors at…

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Self-Assembling Chips: MIT’s Breakthrough in Innovation

The new method — developed by MIT visiting doctoral student Amir Tavakkoli of the National University of Singapore, along with two other graduate students and…

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Hydrogen Release Breakthrough: Fine Line in Storage Materials

Hydrogen, the simplest and most abundant element on Earth, is a promising energy carrier for emerging clean energy technology. Hydrogen is the energy carrier…

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Toughened Silicon Sponges: A Breakthrough for Battery Anodes

Researchers at Rice University and Lockheed Martin reported this month that they’ve found a way to make multiple high-performance anodes from a single silicon…

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Carbon-Based Transistors Boost Speed and Memory in Mobile Devices

Though smartphones and tablets are hailed as the hardware of the future, their present-day incarnations have some flaws. Most notoriously, low RAM memory…

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Lab-Engineered Muscle Implants Restore Function in Animals

“While the body has a capacity to repair small defects in skeletal muscle, the only option for larger defects is to surgically move muscle from one part of the…

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Graphene’s Unique Properties Transform Low-Power Telecoms

New research by Columbia Engineering demonstrates remarkable optical nonlinear behavior of graphene that may lead to broad applications in optical…

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Plasmonic Chains Mimic Polymers for Future Computer Chips

New research at Rice University that seeks to establish points of reference between plasmonic particles and polymers might lead to smaller computer chips,…

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Ferroelectricity Advances: Nanoscale Chips for Massive Data Storage

Promising news for those who relish the prospects of a one-inch chip storing multiple terabytes of data, some clarity has been brought to the here-to-fore…

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Development of “Slater Insulator” that Rapidly Changes from Conductor to Insulator at Room Temperature

Dr. Kazunari Yamaura, a Principal Researcher of the Strongly Correlated Materials Group, Superconducting Properties Unit, National Institute for Materials…

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Exploring Exotic Ferroelectric Nanomaterials at Subatomic Levels

As scientists learn to manipulate little-understood nanoscale materials, they are laying the foundation for a future of more compact, efficient, and innovative…

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Nanomaterials: Formation in a flash

Titanium dioxide, or titania, is an inorganic material commonly used as a whitening agent in food and toothpaste. It is also used as one of the main active…

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Corrosion-resistant heat exchangers using AlWaFlon® pressure tubes made with DuPont™ Teflon® PTFE …

AlWaFlon® pressure tubes supplied by Wallstein Ingenieur GmbH of Recklinghausen/Germany are made with DuPont™ Teflon® polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). This…

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