Materials Sciences

Materials Sciences

Innovative Materials Boost Adhesion for Safer Handling

As a result, industrial handling processes can be improved and made safer, and that is not all. The materials are also promising in terms of on-skin…

Materials Sciences

SUTD Researchers Uncover Mysteries in 2D Material Electronics

The understanding of 2D material-based Schottky diode is, however, plagued by multiple mysteries. Several theoretical models have co-existed in the literatures…

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New Nano Material Advances Quantum Electronics Research

An international team led by Assistant Professor Kasper Steen Pedersen, DTU Chemistry, has synthesized a novel nano material with electrical and magnetic…

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Solid Material with Mobile Particles Responds to Environment

How does one get solid particles to move inside a solid material? „You rarely want this to happen in steel, concrete, or plastics, because free motion usually…

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Bio-Inspired Materials Reduce Liquid Drag for Efficient Flow

Researchers from KAUST's Water Desalination and Reuse Center have engineered nature-inspired surfaces that help to decrease frictional drag at the interface…

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Pushing 'print' on large-scale piezoelectric materials

First ever large-scale 2D surface deposition of piezoelectric material –Simple, inexpensive technique opens new fields for piezo-sensors & energy harvesting

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Discover the New Simplified Metal 3D Printer for Industries

Used to produce three-dimensional objects of almost any type, across a range of industries, including healthcare, aviation and engineering, 3D printed…

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Methane to Syngas Catalyst: Dual Benefits Explained

Syngas, also known as synthesis gas, is a mixture made primarily of carbon monoxide and hydrogen and is used to manufacture polymers, pharmaceuticals, and…

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New Smart Materials Open Doors to Innovative Research

A group of new smart materials discovered by researchers at Texas A&M University and their colleagues has the potential to significantly improve the efficiency…

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Discover the Brightest Source of Entangled Photons Today

The rules of quantum physics state, that two photons can interact in such a way that they become deeply linked and remain connected even when separated by…

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Lighthouse Project "Criticality of Rare Earths" successfully completed

In the Fraunhofer flagship project “Criticality of rare earths”, launched in 2013, eight Fraunhofer Institutes bundled their expertise to enable a more…

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Cannibalistic Materials: Self-Feeding Nanostructures Explained

The findings, reported in Nature Communications, provide insights that may improve design of 2D materials for fast-charging energy-storage and electronic…

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Smart Innovations for Cracking Tough Nuts at Empa Lab

Kilian Wasmer from the Empa lab for Advanced Materials Processing in Thun keeps shaking his head while speaking, as if he can’t believe the success story…

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Nano-Imaging Intersubband Transitions in 2D Materials

Quantum wells of the highest quality are typically fabricated by molecular beam epitaxy (sequential growth of crystalline layers), which is a well-established…

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Invisible Needles: Breakthrough Metamaterial Innovation Unveiled

An international research group of scientists from Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and NUST MISIS (Russia) has developed a model of a new metamaterial, which…

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First-Ever Colored Thin Films from Carbon Nanotubes Created

Single-walled carbon nanotubes, or sheets of one atom-thick layers of graphene rolled up into different sizes and shapes, have found many uses in electronics…

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