Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

MXene Materials: A New Hope for Dialysis Patients

For more than 3 million people around the world, kidney failure is a life-altering diagnosis, if not a life-threatening one. While about 17 percent of people…

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Stronger Metals: New Insights from Spaced-Out Nanotwins

In a paper in the journal Science, the researchers show that varying the spacing between twin boundaries, as opposed to maintaining consistent spacing…

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Disorder’s Impact on Material Phase Transitions Explained

While these arrangements can be easily studied in each phase individually, it is significantly harder to study how they change their arrangements from one…

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New Material Cleans and Splits Water Using MOFs

Because MOFs are so versatile in both their structural design and usefulness, material scientists are currently testing them in a number of chemical…

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Engineers Create Eco-Friendly Conductive Graphene Fabrics

Recently the research article “A method for producing conductive graphene biopolymer nanofibrous fabrics by exploitation of an ionic liquid dispersant in…

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Electronic Highways at Nanoscale Boost Computing Efficiency

Computers are getting faster and increasingly powerful. However, at the same time computing requires noticeably more energy, which is almost completely…

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Crystals Clean Natural Gas: A Sustainable Upgrade for Saudi Arabia

Upgrading natural gas in this way could help Saudi Arabia to make greater and cleaner use of its abundant natural gas supplies, which can contain high levels…

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Next-Gen Watch Springs: Innovations Driving Industry Change

Applied research is not always initiated by industry – but oftentimes it yields results that can swiftly be implemented by companies. A prime example can be…

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Carbon Nanotubes: The Future of Fast-Charging Batteries

Rice University scientists are counting on films of carbon nanotubes to make high-powered, fast-charging lithium metal batteries a logical replacement for…

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Directional Nanolight Discovered in 2D Material for Future Tech

Future information and communication technologies will rely on the manipulation of not only electrons but also of light at the nanometer-scale. Squeezing…

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Joining CFRP and Aluminum: Tackling Contact Corrosion Challenges

The combination of fibre composite materials and lightweight materials presents unique challenges to all established joining technologies. In addition to the…

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Carbon Fiber Energy Storage: Lightening the Future of Vehicles

Passenger aircraft need to be much lighter than they are today in order to be powered by electricity. A reduction in weight is also very important for vehicles…

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Exploring Metal-Organic Networks: The Future of Electronics

Silicon, a so called semiconductor, is currently widely employed for the development of components such as solar cells, LEDs or computer chips. High purity…

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First LIBS Measurement at 600 Bar Unlocks Deep Sea Insights

Locating mineral resources on the sea floor has so far been rather expensive. In order to reduce the costs, the LZH is working with eight other European…

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High Entropy Alloys: Unlocking Dislocation Avalanche Insights

“Metals are made of polycrystals and the crystals have atoms arranged in an orderly way,” explained lead author Jian-Mu Zuo, Ivan Racheff Professor of…

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Graphene’s Potential to Meet Future Telecom Bandwidth Needs

Researchers within the Graphene Flagship project, one of the biggest research initiatives of the European Commission, showed that integrated graphene-based…

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