Materials Sciences
Materials management deals with the research, development, manufacturing and processing of raw and industrial materials. Key aspects here are biological and medical issues, which play an increasingly important role in this field.
innovations-report offers in-depth articles related to the development and application of materials and the structure and properties of new materials.
Better together: Graphene-nanotube hybrid switches
However, on their own, these materials are terrible for use in the electronics world. As a conductor, graphene lets electrons zip too fast–there's no…
Magnetism at Nanoscale
As the demand grows for ever smaller, smarter electronics, so does the demand for understanding materials’ behavior at ever smaller scales. Physicists at the…
“Seeing” molecular interactions could give boost to organic electronics
Organic materials are increasingly being applied in cutting-edge technologies. Organic semiconductors, for example, are being used to develop paper-thin,…
Controlling phase changes in solids
Rewritable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs owe their existence to phase-change materials, those materials that change their internal order when heated and whose…
Reshaping the solar spectrum to turn light to electricity
When it comes to installing solar cells, labor cost and the cost of the land to house them constitute the bulk of the expense. The solar cells — made often of…
Researchers predict material with record-setting melting point
The computations, described in the journal Physical Review B (Rapid Communications), showed that a material made with just the right amounts of hafnium,…