Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Machine Learning Optimizes Metamaterials for Energy Harvesting

Electrical engineers at Duke University have harnessed the power of machine learning to design dielectric (non-metal) metamaterials that absorb and emit…

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Iridium 'loses its identity' when interfaced with nickel

Hey, physicists and materials scientists: You'd better reevaluate your work if you study iridium-based materials – members of the platinum family – when they…

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Designing Efficient Materials for OLED Displays

The basic principle of the first light bulb, invented by Thomas Edison in the 19th century, was quite simple: Electrons – negatively charged particles – flow…

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Researchers Create 3D Living Displays for Future Tech

In a study published in Advanced Materials Technologies, the team, led by Caterina Lamuta, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of…

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Magnetic Weyl Semimetals: Bridging Topology and Spintronics

These materials – magnetic Weyl semi-metals – are innately quantum but bridge the two worlds of topology and spintronics. Topological materials exhibit strange…

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New Synthesis Mechanism for Semiconductor Atomic Sheets

In Japan Science and Technology Agency's Strategic Basic Research Programs, Associate Professor Toshiaki Kato and Professor Toshiro Kaneko of the Department of…

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3D Printed Turbine: A Leap in Component Optimization

The component assembly consists of 68 parts made of aluminium, steel and titanium, which through component optimisation and the possibilities of Electron and…

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New Ceramic Heat Shields Enhance Economical Aircraft Design

To make aircrafts more economical, environmentally friendly and robust, Fraunhofer engineers from Dresden have developed a new ceramic heat shield technology….

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Scientists' design discovery doubles conductivity of indium oxide transparent coatings

Tin doped indium oxide -ITO – is the leading material used in the coating applied to the glass or clear plastic of touch screens, solar cells and light…

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Individualization of Products in Mass Production within the Fraunhofer Lighthouse Project »Go Beyond 4.0«

Six Fraunhofer Institutes (ENAS, IFAM, ILT, IOF, ISC and IWU) have succeeded to manufacture electrical conductor patterns, sensors, and high-tech lighting…

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New Insights on Electron Scattering in 2D Materials

Understanding how particles behave at the twilight zone between the macro and the quantum world gives us access to fascinating phenomena, interesting from both…

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Scientists Develop Unique Twisted-Untwisted Nanomaterial

A new nanomaterial developed by scientists at the University of Bath could solve a conundrum faced by scientists probing some of the most promising types of…

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New Metamaterial Changes Shape and Properties Dynamically

A newly developed type of architected metamaterial has the ability to change shape in a tunable fashion.

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Reconfigurable Electronics: The Future of Wearable Implants

Medical implants of the future may feature reconfigurable electronic platforms that can morph in shape and size dynamically as bodies change or transform to…

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New Insights on Charge Density in High-Temperature Superconductors

High critical temperature superconductors have a variable charge density, meaning that their electrical charge is unevenly distributed. This partly results…

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New Spintronics Material Boosts Efficient Data Processing

Electric current flows through all technical devices. Heat is generated and energy is lost. Spintronics explores new approaches to solving this issue that…

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