Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Remora-inspired suction disk mimics fish's adhesion ability, offers evolutionary insight

Key to the remora's adhesion are the disk's well-known capabilities for generating suction, as well as friction created by spiky bones within the disk called…

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New Study Examines Electric Solid Propellant Performance

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Missouri University of Science and Technology, and NASA conducted experiments to understand…

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New Insights on Silicon Carbide Crystal Defects

Mathematics loves perfection. Unfortunately, perfection does not love physical reality. Theoreticians modelling crystals have long tried to include defects in…

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Microwave-Sized Water Harvester Tackles Desert Water Scarcity

With water scarcity a growing problem worldwide, University of California, Berkeley, researchers are close to producing a microwave-sized water harvester that…

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Smarter Experiments Speed Up Materials Discovery

A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory designed, created, and…

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Understanding Bone Failure: Insights on Osteoporosis Risks

Osteoporosis is a wide­spread disease. Every third woman and every fifth man are affected by bone loss with ad­vanc­ing age. A frequent consequence of this is…

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Shape-Shifting Sheets: New Math Framework from Harvard Researchers

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a mathematical framework that can turn any sheet…

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Rewriting the periodic table at high pressure

The study maps how both the electronegativity and the electron configuration of elements change under pressure. These findings offer materials researchers an…

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New 3D interconnection technology for future wearable bioelectronics

It seems the days are gone when just tossing a smart watch on your wrist makes you look cool. The wearable biotech industry has recently revealed its…

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New Composite Material Combines Dyes and Viruses for Photooxidation

'Our first challenge was to select the right photosensitizer,' says Eduardo Anaya, Postdoctoral Researcher at Aalto University, 'We decided to employ…

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First Metal-Organic Coordination Polymers Synthesized at Samara Polytech

Under the leadership of the head of the laboratory for the synthesis of new crystalline materials of the Samara Center for Theoretical Materials Science…

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Understanding Atom Vibration in Graphene Nanostructures

In order to understand advanced materials like graphene nanostructures and optimize them for devices in nano-, opto- and quantum-technology it is crucial to…

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Sharp Meets Flat: Tunable 2D Material Innovations at Rice

A Rice University lab wants its products to look sharp, even at the nanoscale. Its latest creation is right on target.

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New X-Ray Testing System Enhances Defect Detection at Landshut

Since the beginning of July and new x-ray testing system at Landshut University of Applied Sciences has been providing the perfect perspective.

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Designer Clothing That Powers Up While Keeping You Fresh

A new addition to your wardrobe may soon help you turn on the lights and music – while also keeping you fresh, dry, fashionable, clean and safe from the latest…

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Neural Networks Enhance Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Process

“A major hindrance to unlocking the vast potential of nanotubes is their multiphase manufacturing process which is extremely difficult to manage. We have suggested using artificial neural networks (ANN) to analyze experimental data and predict the efficiency of single-walled carbon nanotubes synthesis,” explains one of the authors of the study and Skoltech researcher, Dmitry Krasnikov. In their work published in the prestigious Carbon journal, the authors show that machine learning methods, and, in particular, ANN trained on experimental parameters, such…

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