Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Silk Microneedles: Painless Drug Delivery Innovations

The tiny needles can be fabricated under normal temperature and pressure and from water, so they can be loaded with sensitive biochemical compounds and…

Materials Sciences

Self-Healing Electronics: Longer Life and Less Waste

A team of University of Illinois engineers has developed a self-healing system that restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in less time than it…

Materials Sciences

Athens Attic Vases Influence Cypriote Pottery Design

Niki Eriksson, who has studied the Attic pottery found in Cyprus, points out that the pottery was imported from the early 500s BC to the late 300 BC, she also…

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Invisibility Cloak: Metamaterials Make Science Fiction Real

Progress of metamaterials in nanotechnologies has made the invisibility cloak, a subject of mythology and science fiction, become reality: Light waves can be…

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Infrared Technology: Assessing Fire Impact on Materials

In addition, there is the problem of the high concentration of gasses (CO2, H2O and others), which makes it difficult to obtain clear images of the sample…

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New Cotton Fabric Cleans Itself When Exposed to Ordinary Sunlight

Mingce Long and Deyong Wu say their fabric uses a coating made from a compound of titanium dioxide, the white material used in everything from white paint to…

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Understanding Granular Material Properties: Beach Sand Explained

A stroll on the beach can mean sinking your toes into smooth sand or walking firm-footed on a surface that appears almost solid. While both properties are…

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Cotton fabric cleans itself when exposed to ordinary sunlight

Mingce Long and Deyong Wu say their fabric uses a coating made from a compound of titanium dioxide, the white material used in everything from white paint to…

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Flexible Electronics: New Advances in Stretchable Circuitry

Imprinting electronic circuitry on backplanes that are both flexible and stretchable promises to revolutionize a number of industries and make “smart devices”…

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Using Diamonds and Dust to Enhance Cement Durability

It's no surprise that humans the world over use more water, by volume, than any other material. But in second place, at over 17 billion tons consumed each…

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Materials science: A sticky problem

Coating the ship’s hull with biocides can help prevent biofouling, but the chemicals used are often harmful to the environment. An environmentally friendly…

Materials Sciences

Carnegie Mellon Uses NMR to Analyze Gold Nanoparticle Handedness

Their approach offers a significant advantage over routine methods for analyzing gold nanoparticles because it can determine whether the nanoparticles exist in…

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Recycling Electric Motors: A Sustainable Source of Raw Materials

In their efforts to develop a solution suitable for application in industry, the partners in the MORE (MOtor REcycling) project are taking into account all…

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Giant Piezoelectric Effect to Improve MEMS Devices

These engineered films have great potential for energy harvesting applications, as well as in micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS), micro actuators, and…

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Technion Researchers Find New Way to Charge Solar Cell Materials

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers have now found a new way to generate an electrical field inside the quantum dots, making them more suitable…

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Biocompatible Graphene Transistor Array Reads Cellular Signals

Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, a graphene-based transistor array that is compatible with living biological cells and capable of recording…

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