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Thanks for the Memory: More Room for Data in ‘Phase-Change’ Material
Published on 2012-05-04 14:11:54
A team led by Johns Hopkins engineers has discovered some previously unknown properties of a common memory material, paving the way for development of new forms of memory drives, movie ... > read more
Controlling Heat Flow with Atomic-Level Precision
Published on 2012-05-04 06:23:27
Through a combination of atomic-scale materials design and ultrafast measurements, researchers at the University of Illinois have revealed new insights about how heat flows across an interface between two materials. ... > read more
New Graphene-Based Material Could Revolutionize Electronics
Published on 2012-05-03 12:15:41
The most transparent, lightweight and flexible material ever for conducting electricity has been invented by a team from the University of Exeter. Called GraphExeter, the material could revolutionise the creation ... > read more
Large-Scale Piezoelectricity From ZnO Materials
Published on 2012-04-05 06:09:59
In recent years, with the growing concerns over environmental protection and human health, environment-friendly materials have received increasing attention, and for decades researchers have been fiercely studying lead-free piezoelectric materials ... > read more
New Material Cuts Costs of Separating Gas for Plastics
Published on 2012-04-04 06:06:47
A new type of hybrid material developed at the University of California, Berkeley, could help oil and chemical companies save energy and money – and lower their environmental impacts – ... > read more
New Understanding of How Materials Change When Rapidly Heated
Published on 2012-04-03 13:48:27
Collaboration between the University of Southampton and the University of Cambridge has made ground-breaking advances in our understanding of the changes that materials undergo when rapidly heated. Using cutting edge ... > read more
Advanced Materials for Reactors Probed
Published on 2012-03-30 14:15:48
Sandia National Laboratories is using its Ion Beam Laboratory (IBL) to study how to rapidly evaluate the tougher advanced materials needed to build the next generation of nuclear reactors and ... > read more
A New Path for Light Through Metals
Published on 2012-03-30 14:05:46
Helping bridge the gap between photonics and electronics, researchers from Purdue University have coaxed a thin film of titanium nitride into transporting plasmons, tiny electron excitations coupled to light that ... > read more
Electron Microscopy Revolutionised
Published on 2012-03-26 06:03:01
Researchers at the University of Sheffield have revolutionised the electron microscope by developing a new method which could create the highest resolution images ever seen. For over 70 years, transmission ... > read more
Graphene Nanopores Unlock DNA
Published on 2012-03-23 10:03:54
Look at the tip of that old pencil in your desk drawer, and what you’ll see are layers of graphite that are thousands of atoms thick. Use the pencil to ... > read more
Liquid-like Materials to Improve Thermoelectric Devices
Published on 2012-03-22 15:48:38
In the continual quest for better thermoelectric materials—which convert heat into electricity and vice versa—researchers have identified a liquid-like compound whose properties give it the potential to be even more ... > read more
Exotic Materials Change Optics
Published on 2012-03-19 15:00:57
Duke University engineers believe that continued advances in creating ever-more exotic and sophisticated man-made materials will greatly improve their ability to control light at will. The burgeoning use of metamaterials ... > read more
Diamond Brightens the Performance of Electronics
Published on 2012-03-15 07:11:10
While diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, they’re also well-loved by scientists working to enhance the performance of electronic devices. Two new studies performed at the U.S. Department of ... > read more
Spinning Natural Thermal Conductors
Published on 2012-03-14 12:19:32
Xinwei Wang had a hunch that spider webs were worth a much closer look. So he ordered eight spiders – Nephila clavipes, golden silk orbweavers – and put them to ... > read more
First-ever Images of Atom Movement
Published on 2012-03-13 12:18:42
Using a new ultrafast camera, researchers have recorded the first real-time image of two atoms vibrating in a molecule. Key to the experiment, which appears in this week’s issue of ... > read more
Assuring the Supply of Rare Earth Materials
Published on 2012-03-12 12:11:14
“Our future success in the key industrial branches automobile, machine, and plant construction as well as chemical technologies here in Germany will depend essentially on the availability of such strategically ... > read more
Micromechanics Software for Materials Analysis
Published on 2012-03-11 12:27:22
AnalySwift, a leading provider of efficient high-fidelity modeling software for aerospace and energy composites and other advanced materials, announced today the release of the newest version of the dramatically different ... > read more
Polymer Solar Cells Energy-Conversion Records
Published on 2012-02-24 12:10:05
In the effort to convert sunlight into electricity, photovoltaic solar cells that use conductive organic polymers for light absorption and conversion have shown great potential. Organic polymers can be produced ... > read more
New Methodology Assesses Risk of Scarce Metals
Published on 2012-02-24 06:10:22
Yale researchers have developed a methodology for governments and corporations to determine the availability of critical metals, according to a paper in Environmental Science & Technology. In “Methodology of Metal Criticality ... > read more
A New Twist on Nanowires
Published on 2012-02-23 14:11:31
Nanowires — microscopic fibers that can be “grown” in the lab — are a hot research topic today, with a variety of potential applications including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and sensors. ... > read more
New Zeolite Material may Solve Diesel Shortage
Published on 2012-02-23 12:36:01
A recently published article in Nature Chemistry by a research team at Stockholm University and the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain presents a new porous material that evinces unique ... > read more
Advanced Composite Blade Modelling
Published on 2012-01-28 13:25:08
AnalySwift, a leading provider of efficient high-fidelity modeling software for aerospace and energy composites and other advanced materials, announced today the release of VABS 3.6. This is the latest version of VABS, ... > read more
Mantec Consolidates Ceramic Activities
Published on 2012-01-28 13:15:39
Mantec, the British technology group with a portfolio of manufacturing businesses based in Stoke-on-Trent, has announced that with immediate effect the three companies previously operated as subsidiaries of the technical ... > read more
New Material for Thermonuclear Fusion Reactors
Published on 2012-01-10 06:11:06
Thermonuclear fusion promises to be a possible solution to the current energy crisis. It is produced when two atomic nuclei of light elements combine to produce heavier elements, which give ... > read more
Reference Material for Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Published on 2012-01-09 14:15:11
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the world’s first reference material for single-wall carbon nanotube soot. Distantly related to the soot in your fireplace or in ... > read more
Nanocrystals make Dentures Shine
Published on 2012-01-09 11:14:03
The hardest substance in the human body is moved by its strongest muscles: When we heartily bite into an apple or a schnitzel, enormous strengths are working on the surface ... > read more
Customisable Graphene Nanowiggles
Published on 2012-01-09 06:17:50
A research team led by Vincent Meunier from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has discovered the unique properties of graphene nanowiggles, a new type of graphene material, by utilizing the capabilities of ... > read more
A New Kind of Metal in the Deep Earth
Published on 2012-01-05 06:53:10
The crushing pressures and intense temperatures in Earth’s deep interior squeeze atoms and electrons so closely together that they interact very differently. With depth materials change. New experiments and supercomputer ... > read more
Granular Material Properties Explained
Published on 2012-01-05 06:33:57
A stroll on the beach can mean sinking your toes into smooth sand or walking firm-footed on a surface that appears almost solid. While both properties are commonplace, exactly what ... > read more
Highly Porous Material Discovered
Published on 2012-01-05 06:20:45
The delivery of pharmaceuticals into the human body or the storage of voluminous quantities of gas molecules could now be better controlled, thanks to a study by University of Pittsburgh ... > read more
NASAs New Super-black Material
Published on 2011-12-08 14:11:27
NASA engineers have produced a material that absorbs on average more than 99 percent of the ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and far-infrared light that hits it — a development that promises ... > read more