It poses great problems to our society, making it the subject of investigation for many research groups, which dedicate great efforts to find means to prevent…
Which plastic is right for what application and how technically safe these products and construction units manufactured from plastics are can only be answered…
The yarns have been developed by The William Lee Innovation Centre (WLIC), based in the University’s School of Materials – and have the potential to be…
A definition of piezoelectricity – piezo being Greek for “subjected to pressure” – is the generation of the electrical polarisation of a material as a response…
MIT researchers have created a new structured gel that can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including temperature, pressure, salt…
While they have proven useful for these purposes, no one really knows much about what’s going on at the molecular level. For example, how do nanotubes and…
While developing new lenses for next-generation sensors, researchers have crafted a layered material that causes light to refract, or bend, in a manner nature…
Soil around the Midwest is mostly soft clay and till deposited by glaciers, said Halil Ceylan, an Iowa State assistant professor of civil, construction and…
A Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite…
“World record efficiencies are popping up almost every month, leading the OSC community into an endless and dangerous tendency to outbid the last report,”…
The ability to directly pattern functional oxides at the nanoscale opens a new avenue to functional devices. Potential applications include micro-fuel cells,…
This phase was not found in earlier experiments for any element and compound. The findings are being published in this week’s Net edition of Proceedings of the…
The material — a compound made from the elements potassium, niobium and oxygen, along with chromium ions — could provide a technological breakthrough that…
It's made of layers of clay nanosheets and a water-soluble polymer that shares chemistry with white glue.Engineering professor Nicholas Kotov almost dubbed it…
The project, within the remit of the ELKANO mobility grants promoted by GAIA and the UPV-EHU – is being undertaken by two young Gipuzkoans: Borja Ponte, BSc in…
The unusual qualities of this special material (called CentrAl, an abbreviation of Central Reinforced Aluminium) can make a significant contribution to the…
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