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.
Perovskites can improve fabrication of ceramic electronics
Many ceramic-based electronics, such as spark plugs and multilayer ceramic capacitors (found in consumer electronics, mobile phones, DVDs and video cameras,…
New material captures carbon at half the energy cost
UC Berkeley chemists have made a major leap forward in carbon-capture technology with a material that can efficiently remove carbon from the ambient air of a…
Green Solid Electrolyte For Electrochemical Devices
The majority of all polymers are insulators which do not show any remarkable electro activity. In the past, researchers have found out how to obtain a…
KAIST Develops Ultrathin Polymer Insulators Key to Low-Power Soft Electronics
A group of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) developed a high-performance ultrathin polymeric insulator for…
Biotech materials made simple – crystal structures altered by a single protein
Scientists in Haifa and Saarbrücken have now succeeded in replicating the combination of calcium carbonate and biopolymeric compounds which nature took…
Squeezing out new science from material interfaces
By applying extreme pressure in a diamond anvil cell to metal films on diamond, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have now…