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 battery imaging paves way for renewable energy future
“Iron fluoride has the potential to triple the amount of energy a conventional lithium-ion battery can store,” says Song Jin, a UW-Madison professor of…
How to maximize the superconducting critical temperature in a molecular superconductor
An international research team, led by Professor Kosmas Prassides of Tohoku University, has investigated the electronic properties of the family of…
Diamonds get more beautiful with laser lamps
Diamonds were always popular particularly when they are very big and of a brilliant surface. Yet, the bigger the rough diamond, the bigger the risk of…
X-ray study images structural damage in lithium-ion batteries
Charging lithium-ion batteries too quickly can permanently reduce the battery capacity. Portions of the energy storage structure are thereby destroyed and…
A KAIST research team develops a hyper-stretchable elastic-composite energy harvester
Flexible electronics have come into the market and are enabling new technologies like flexible displays in mobile phone, wearable electronics, and the Internet…
Rapid transfer from lab to roll – continuous coating on the pilot scale
Functional coatings are an ideal way to provide products with new properties by using just a minimum of extra material.