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.
Could black phosphorus be the next silicon?
As scientists continue to hunt for a material that will make it possible to pack more transistors on a chip, new research from McGill University and Université…
Diamond provides technical progress
To date only nature has been able to create organic substances from sunlight and the gas carbon dioxide, which is available in abundance in the Earth’s…
World’s Highest Magnetic Field* (1,020MHz) NMR developed
The research team of Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), RIKEN, Kobe Steel and JEOL RESONANCE successfully developed the NMR system…
Nanospiked bacteria are the brightest hard X-ray emitters
When one thinks of hard x-rays and bacteria it is usually that the bacteria are at the receiving end of the x-ray source – being imaged, irradiated for some…
Homegrown Solution for Synchrotron Light Source
It’s often said that necessity is the mother of invention. Such was the case for Ames Laboratory physicist Adam Kaminski who took the research challenge he was…
New method can make cheaper solar energy storage
However, the cost of producing efficient solar panels makes water-splitting technologies too expensive to commercialize. EPFL scientists have now developed a…