A team of researchers at MIT has found a way to manipulate both the thermal conductivity and the electrical conductivity of materials simply by changing the…
Aeroplanes and motor cars need to be lighter to save fuel but at the same time they need to convey their passengers in total safety. The blades of wind power…
A new kind of sensor could warn emergency workers when carbon filters in the respirators they wear to avoid inhaling toxic fumes have become dangerously…
Implanted biomedical devices, such as cardiac stents, are implanted in over 2 million people every year, with the majority made from stainless steel. Stainless…
Developing this nanofiber sphere as a cell carrier that simulates the natural growing environment of the cell is a very significant advance in tissue repair,…
Now, researchers have discovered that a new class of ceramic coatings could offer jet engines special protection against volcanic ash damage in the future.For…
“As we’re currently seeing in Japan, one of the major health risks posed by nuclear accidents is radioactive iodide that dissolves into drinking water. Because…
The discovery by two Penn State University researchers is a new type of symmetry in the structure of materials, which the researchers say greatly expands the…
Their technique can both dramatically speed up and improve the accuracy of the most precise and delicate nanoscale measurements done with atomic force…
Spincasting, which utilizes centrifugal force to distribute a liquid onto a solid substrate, already has a variety of uses. For example, it is used in the…
Superlenses hold enormous potential in a range of applications, depending upon the form of light they capture, but their use has been limited because most have…
The University of Tokyo announced on February 7, 2011 that Professor M. Tanaka and his colleagues have succeeded in determining the Fermi level position and…
The Institute for Molecular Science, National Institute of Natural Sciences announced on March 3, 2011 that a research group led by Professor Masahiro Hiramoto…
Japan Science and Technology Agency and Tohoku University announced on March 2, 2011 that Professor Tadahiro Yoneda of Tohoku University and his colleagues…
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) announced on February 8, 2011 that Researcher Genki Yoshikawa of NIMS International Center for Materials…
Magnets made of just a few metallic atoms could make it possible to build radically smaller storage devices and have also recently been proposed as components…
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