Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

AMable Project: Flexible Additive Manufacturing Against COVID-19

The AMable partners are calling for ideas to be submitted in a first step and applicable solutions for the additive manufacture of new products in a second…

Materials Sciences

Bayreuth Scientists Innovate Ceramic Coating Spraying Method

With PAD, dense ceramic films can be applied to very different types of materials, such as steel, glass, silicon, or even plastic. To achieve this, a dry…

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Advancing Soft Tissue Research: Understanding Cavitation Effects

A type of damage in soft materials and tissue called cavitation is one of the least-studied phenomena in physics, materials science and biology, say expert…

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KIST Unveils Nanometer-Thin Electromagnetic Shielding Film

A Korean research team has developed a technology to fabricate an ultrathin material for electromagnetic interference(EMI) shielding. The research team, led by…

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Designing Lubricants: Insights from Computer Characterization

In order to develop a new lubricant or to improve upon an existing one, it is important to precisely understand its behavior: pressure, temperature, shear rate…

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New Handle on Electromagnetic Properties Boosts Spintronic Computing

Materials scientists at Duke University have shown the first clear example that a material's transition into a magnet can control instabilities in its…

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KIST Unveils Washable Foldable Luminescent Film Innovation

Infrared radiation, which is invisible yet highly utilizable, is used in various fields and for various purposes, such as for coronavirus detection (i.e….

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New Hybrid Material Emerges as Efficient Photodetector

A hybrid material, developed in Dresden, fulfils both these requirements. Himani Arora, a physics PhD student at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR),…

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X-Rays Uncover Crystal Growth in Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells

Two factors that significantly affect the efficiency of these solar cells are the ability to form thin films and the structure of the materials in the solar…

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House Cleaning on the Nanoscale: The World’s Smallest Broom

World’s smallest broom

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Real-Time Capture of 3D Microstructures at CNM

Researchers at the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at the DOE's Argonne…

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Easy Dirt Removal: Clean Surfaces Effortlessly

All surfaces in our daily lives become dirty over time with particles such as dust, pollen or microorganisms. Therefore, surfaces are desirable that are easy…

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Graphene-based actuator swarm enables programmable deformation

Generally, bilayer structures are widely used for design and fabrication of stimuli responsive actuators. In the past decade, to pursue fast and large-scale…

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3D Printing Breakthrough: Complex Cellulose Objects Unveiled

A group of researchers at ETH Zurich and Empa have now found a way to process cellulose using 3D printing so as to create objects of almost unlimited…

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Skoltech’s New Cathode Material Boosts Metal-Ion Batteries

Nowadays, the rapid development of electric transport and renewable energy sources calls for commercially accessible, safe and inexpensive energy storage…

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Energy-Efficient Electronics: Harnessing Electron Spin States

It involves exploiting the complex quantum properties of electrons – in this case, the spin state of electrons.

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