Though insecticide-treated nets are commonly used to drive away mosquitoes from African homes, the Cornell prototype garment can be worn throughout the day to…
A research team lead by Professor Martin Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has succeeded in realizing a new material class through the…
The work was reported April 16 in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.The research focused on an inexpensive phase-change…
Writing yesterday (May 3, 2012) in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Chemical and…
Strong metals have a tendency to be less ductile — unless the metal happens to be a peculiar form of copper known as nanotwinned copper. The crystal structure…
Many technologies are actively under investigation, but a neglected aspect is the sustainability of the material requirements. A highly efficient process based…
“This work is exciting because it helps reveal in new detail how we can achieve high performance transistors and solar cells with polymers,” said UC Santa…
Tong Lin and colleagues explain that a method called “layer-by-layer” (LbL) self-assembly produces films and coatings for sensors, drug-delivery devices and…
Physicists from Münster University (WWU) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing have jointly developed a new type of composite polymer whose…
The coolest new nanomaterial of the 21st century could boost the efficiency of the next generation of solar panels, a team of Michigan Technological University…
These data help materials scientists optimize existing products and current produc-tion processes and provide information for the “in silico“ development of…
The researchers demonstrated that a single layer of atoms can disrupt or enhance heat flow across an interface. Their results are published this week in Nature…
No matter if it is a giant complex, a high-rise, or an underground project, modern architecture cannot get along without concrete. The component in concrete…
“This technology is the best one available today on clear barrier polypropylene packaging films“. Gabriel Durana, Product Manager for Special Technologies at…
A multi-institutional research team led by Andrei Kholkin of the University of Aveiro, Portugal, used a combination of experiments and modeling to identify and…
Every year, more than a million Americans receive an artificial hip or knee prosthesis. Such implants are designed to last many years, but in about 17 percent…
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