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.
Polymer Materials Make Solar Thermal Systems More Sustainable
Within the ExKoll project, the Durability Analysis Group at Fraunhofer ISE investigated the economic feasibility of polymer collectors and performed life-cycle…
Researchers enable solar cells to use more sunlight
The improvement concerns a conductive oxide film which now has more transparency in the infrared region. Similar attempts had been made before, but this is the…
Dendrite eraser: New electrolyte rids batteries of short-circuiting fibers
Dendrites – the microscopic, pin-like fibers that cause rechargeable batteries to short circuit – create fire hazards and can limit the ability of batteries to…
Semiconductor Works Better When Hitched to Graphene
Graphene – a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon with highly desirable electrical properties, flexibility and strength – shows great promise for future electronics,…
Shape-Shifting Nanorod Ensembles Release Heat Differently
The new findings depict three distinct stages of evolution in groups of gold nanorods from the initial rod-shape to the intermediate-shape to a sphere-shaped…
Extremely repellent surfaces
A computational technique to analyze how water vapor condenses on a surface patterned with an array of tiny pillars has been co-developed by an A*STAR…