A lightweight material full of holes is nearly as hard as diamond. The mere dents left by speeding bullets prove it.
Extreme drought, forest fires, storms and pests have severely afflicted German forests in recent years. In order to make the forests more resilient in times of…
New research reveals even more potential for CNTs: as a coating, they can both repel and hold water in place, a useful property for applications like printing,…
In topological materials, electrons experience a twisted world. Instead of simply moving straight ahead when feeling a force, they may be pushed sideways. In…
Rice University scientists believe they've overcome a major hurdle keeping perovskite-based solar cells from achieving mainstream use.
Not everything is bigger in Texas — some things are really, really small. A group of engineers at The University of Texas at Austin may have found a new…
Now imagine construction at a smaller scale — less than 1/100th the thickness of a piece of paper. This is the nanoscale. It is the scale at which scientists…
Refractory materials are often exposed to extreme conditions. In a melting furnace, for example, they serve as lining material to protect metal aggregates from…
The separation of hydrogen's three isotopes (hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium) is of key importance for fusion power technology, but current technologies are…
Now, researchers from ICFO in Barcelona have succeeded in vastly improving the device quality of this setup, and in doing so, have stumbled upon something even…
Chemists at the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), have reported the synthesis of…
The new concrete is suitable for the construction of military and civil defense structures, load-carrying structures of nuclear power plants, or for buildings…
Five years ago, when University of Arizona materials scientist Jeffrey Pyun presented his first generation of orange-tinted plastic lens to optical scientist…
High temperatures and pressures, processes lasting for even dozens of days. Current methods of producing nanometer-sized alumina, a material of significant…
Innovative nanosheets made from equal parts of hydrogen and boron have a greater capacity to store and release hydrogen compared with conventional metal-based…
Now, researchers are working to better control how the chemicals respond to treatment, as well as how to reverse the chemicals back to their original state…
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