Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Understanding high efficiency of deep ultraviolet LEDs

Deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (DUV-LEDs) made from aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) efficiently transfer electrical energy to optical energy due to…

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Engineered Metasurfaces: Reflecting Waves in New Directions

In our daily lives, we can find many examples of manipulation of reflected waves such as mirrors to see our reflections or reflective surfaces for sound that…

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Smart Windows Capture PM2.5 and Enhance Light Control

While, the intelligent smart windows fabricated on the flexible transparent electrodes can change its transmittance in response to electrical or thermal…

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New Additive Enhances Fire Protection for Wood Structures

Fire protection requirements are increasing worldwide – especially in public buildings and vehicle construction.

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Discover First Principles for Correlated Materials Innovation

Modern functional materials such as superconductors or magnets are underlain by interacting electrons. A detailed description of electronic correlations is…

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Enhancing Stability and Optics in Perovskite Films

Metal halide perovskites are regarded as next generation materials for light emitting devices (LEDs). A recent joint-research co-led by the scientist from City…

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Turning a porous material's color on and off with acid

Chemists are working to develop porous materials made from organic molecules that have structures with well-defined openings that can separate and store…

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Cost-Effective Testing Methods for XXL Rotor Blades

Actual developments have now exceeded the specialists’ expectations: When Fraunhofer IWES opened the first rotor blade testing hall with its 70-meter test bed…

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Rice U. Lab Enhances Aluminum Plasmonics with Porous Envelope

When Rice University chemist and engineer Hossein Robatjazi set out to marry a molecular sieve called MOF to a plasmonic aluminum nanoparticle two years ago,…

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Exploring Graphene’s Safety: The Future of Innovation

Graphene, a single layer of hexagonally arranged carbon atoms, is regarded as the miracle material of the future: it is flexible, transparent, strong, can…

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New Materials Boost High-Voltage Supercapacitor Performance

A research team led by Tohoku University in Japan has developed new materials for supercapacitors with higher voltage and better stability than other…

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Developed self-controlling 'smart' fuel cell electrode material

Professor Lee's team developed a new electrode material designed in a double perovskite structure to solve the stability of SOFC electrode. Inside the…

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Nano-Infused Ceramic: Self-Monitoring Health Sensors Explained

A ceramic that becomes more electrically conductive under elastic strain and less conductive under plastic strain could lead to a new generation of sensors…

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How Spiders Defy Gravity on Ceilings with Tiny Hairs

Hunting spiders easily climb vertical surfaces or move upside down on the ceiling. A thousand tiny hairs at the ends of their legs make sure they do not fall…

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Graphene crinkles can be used as 'molecular zippers'

Now, researchers from Brown University's School of Engineering have explained how the phenomenon works, and that explanation could pave the way for a new type…

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Quantum Sensors Enhance Magnetic Resonance Sensitivity

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is the technique behind a variety of applications, such as medical imaging, neuroscience or detection of drugs and explosives.

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