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.
Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensor May Take Smartphone Security to New Level
Fingerprint sensor technology currently used in smartphones like the iPhone 6 produces a two-dimensional image of a finger’s surface, which can be spoofed…
Large-scale field-effect transistors based on solution-grown organic single crystals are fabricated
However, single-crystal devices are practically difficult to fabricate. For both fundamental studies and technological applications, high-throughput…
Making new materials with micro-explosions
Scientists have made exotic new materials by creating laser-induced micro-explosions in silicon, the common computer chip material.
A polarizing view
Through precise structural control, A*STAR researchers have encoded a single pixel with two distinct colors and have used this capability to generate a…
Helium 'balloons' offer new path to control complex materials
The team's technique, published in Physical Review Letters, advances the understanding and use of complex oxide materials that boast unusual properties such as…
ABattReLife – Causes of battery aging
During a period of three years the project partners studied in five project steps what causes aging of electric vehicle batteries and what could stop the aging…