Tag: Materials

Magnonic devices of the future could use low power to avoid performance lossesCredit: Balandin Lab at UC Riverside Electronic devices ...

Dental fillings could last twice as long

New material could mean fewer trips to the dentist's office, OHSU scientist reportCredit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff A compound used to make ...

How to catch a magnetic monopole in the act

Berkeley Lab-led study could lead to smaller memory devices, microelectronics, and spintronicsCredit: Farhan/Berkeley Lab A research team led by the ...

Scientists develop printable water sensor

X-ray investigation reveals functioning of highly versatile copper-based compoundCredit: UAM, Verónica García Vegas A new, versatile plastic-composite sensor can detect ...

Researchers 3D print ultra-strong steel parts from powder

Credit: US Army photo by David McNally ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Soldiers needing replacement parts may turn to 3-D ...

Researchers use machine learning to more quickly analyze key capacitor materials

Credit: Allison Barnes, Georgia Tech Capacitors, given their high energy output and recharging speed, could play a major role in ...

Chemists ‘print’ sensors for nano-objects

Young scientists from ITMO University proposed a new type of optical nano-sensors. Their operating principle is based on the interaction ...

Light pulses provide a new route to enhance superconductivity

Credit: RIKEN Materials known as Mott insulators are odd things. Under normal electron band theory they ought to conduct electricity, ...

Researchers find potential new source of rare earth elements

Study could benefit the US clean energy and electronics industriesCredit: USDA ARS Researchers have found a possible new source of ...

Interdisciplinary collaboration yields hardest, thinnest coatings yet discovered

Lehigh University materials science and mechanical engineering professors net NSF GOALI award to study ultra wear-resistant nitride filmsCredit: Ryan Hulvat ...

What causes that peak? Answering a long-standing question for covalent liquids

Credit: 2019 Hajime Tanaka, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo - Materials that have a disordered structure ...

Spider silk could be used as robotic muscle

Unusual property of the ultrastrong material could be harnessed for twisting or pulling motions CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Spider silk, already ...

New research opens door to more efficient chemical processes across spectrum of industries

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Chemical processes that are more efficient and less expensive may be coming to industries ranging from battery ...

BFU scientists learned how to manage the properties of amorphous microwires

A team of physicists from Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University and MISIS learned how to manage properties of amorphous microwires ...

Organic electronics: Scientists develop a high-performance unipolar n-type thin-film transistor

-Credit: Tsuyoshi Michinobu, Yang Wang Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) report a unipolar n-type transistor with a ...

Hybrid material may outperform graphene in several applications

A structure comprising a molybdenum disulfide monolayer on an azobenzene substrate could be used to build a highly compactable and ...

No wires, more cuddles: Sensors are first to monitor babies in the NICU without wires

Soft, flexible sensors provide clinical-grade measurements, allow physical bonding between baby and parentCredit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- An interdisciplinary ...

Hall effect becomes viscous in graphene

Researchers at the University of Manchester in the UK have discovered that electrons in graphene act like a very unique ...

G-ray Nanotech and IKZ join forces to develop detector-grade gallium arsenide wafers

New platform for very high performance X-ray detectorsCredit: Matthias Kern, IKZ G-ray Nanotech and IKZ have entered into a research ...

Good news for future tech: Exotic ‘topological’ materials are surprisingly common