Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Engineers Examine Fire Impact on Steel Structures

Building fires may reach temperatures of 1,000 degrees Celsius, or more than 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, said Amit Varma, a Purdue associate professor of civil…

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Harvard Engineers Create Ice-Free Nanostructured Materials

Engineers from Harvard University have designed and demonstrated ice-free nanostructured materials that literally repel water droplets before they even have…

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Graphene's strength lies in its defects

A significant obstacle to realizing graphene's potential lies in creating a surface large enough to support a theoretical sleeping cat. For now, material…

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Empa Researchers Uncover Pathway to Graphene-Like Materials

To overcome the current limitations, Empa researchers have fabricated graphene-like materials using a surface chemical route and clarified in detail the…

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New Exhaust Gas Catalyst Boosts Thermal Resistance 10x

Opening the Road to Reduced Use of Rare MetalsA research team headed by Dr. Hideki Abe, Senior Researcher of the Advanced Electronic Materials Center and Dr….

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European Alliance Advances Simplified Organic Solar Cell Production

A tunable infrared laser system for the selective processing of organic layers in opto-electronical components is the goal of the new research project IMPROV,…

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Russian-German Laser Centers Expand Innovation Network

The Network of Laser Innovative-Technogical Centers (LITC) now has expanded its activities to five centers in Russia. The goal of the centers for the…

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Graphene: Singles and the few

A timely review analyzing the correlation of synthesis methods and physical properties of single-layer and few-layered graphene flakes. A review of methods…

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Innovative Non-Metals Department Launched at Laser Zentrum Hannover

The new Department of Technologies for Non-Metals at the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) focuses on the thematic fields of glass, photovoltaics and composite…

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Corn Starch Technique Shapes Solid Materials, NYU Research Reveals

The process, devised by researchers in NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Physics, offers a potential technique for material…

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Beryllium Oxide’s Surprising Behavior Under Heavy Ion Bombardment

Scientists from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) observed exotic be-haviour from beryllium oxide (BeO) when they bombarded it with high-speed heavy ions: After…

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Transparent Light-Harvesting Material Developed by Scientists

2010—Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory have fabricated transparent thin films…

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Unique duality: Princeton-led team discovers 'exotic' superconductor with metallic surface

The new material — a crystal called a topological superconductor — has two electronic identities at once. At very low temperatures, the interior of the…

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New High-Performance Material Set to Transform Electronics

The discovery, just reported online in the professional journal Advanced Materials, outlines the creation for the first time of a high-performance…

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Texas Tech’s Fibertect Selected As Top Innovation by Cotton Incorporated

The products are highlighted in short vignettes on Cotton Incorporated’s Cotton Today website.In 2005, Seshadri Ramkumar and his team at the Institute of…

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Bismuth-Enhanced Bone Cement: A New Hybrid Solution

Organic–inorganic hybrid materials, uniting the advantages of their organic and inorganic parts, are used for a wide variety of applications. However, making a…

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