Global e-waste surging: Up 21% in 5 years
A record 53.6 million tons (Mt) of e-waste was produced globally in 2019, the weight of 350 cruise ships the ...
Tag: Materials
Complexity of human tooth enamel revealed at atomic level in NIH-funded study
Unprecedented details of enamel structure may point to new ways to prevent or halt cavitiesCredit: Karen DeRocher, Northwestern University Scientists ...
Researchers develop computational model to build better capacitors
Credit: Doug Irving, NC State University Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a computational model that helps users ...
NFL awards near $500K to university for helmet safety
Grantees plan to 3D-print player-specific helmet liners to reduce concussionsCredit: CU Denver The National Football League (NFL) and Football Research, ...
Science snapshots July 2020
Microbial behavior, plant engineering, triple-pane windows, ferroelectricityCredit: Michal Hammel/Berkeley Lab Study Gains New Insight Into Bacterial DNA Packing By Julie ...
Building a harder diamond
Scientists at the University of Tsukuba use computer calculations to propose a new way to rearrange the carbon atoms in ...
Scientists use a Teflon pipe to make a cheap, simple reactor for silica particle synthesis
Functional silica beads for biomedical imaging, drug delivery and other important applications could be made using an easy new flow ...
New materials of perovskite challenge the chemical intuition
Credit: Changqing Jin, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences High-pressure materials science has taken off over the last couple ...
Geologists identify deep-earth structures that may signal hidden metal lodes
Finding new giant copper, lead, zinc deposits could fuel green infrastructureCredit: Adapted from Hoggard et al., Nature Geoscience, 2020 If ...
Versatile LED irradiation system — From disinfection to medical treatments
Credit: FBH/P. Immerz For disinfection purposes, the compact system can be equipped with UV LEDs to eliminate germs on critical ...
World’s widest graphene nanoribbon promises the next generation of miniaturized electronics
Credit: Junichi Yamaguchi, Yasunobu Sugimoto, Shintaro Sato, Hiroko Yamada With literally the thickness of one carbon atom and electrical properties ...
Light from inside the tunnel
Credit: University of Rostock, B. Liewehr Steering and monitoring the light-driven motion of electrons inside matter on the time-scale of ...
Scientists develop N-doped self-cleaning membranes that use visible light irradiation
Credit: ZHANG Huiru Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Argonne National ...
Northwestern launches a national resource to unlock role of metals in human health
Partners include Argonne National Laboratory and leading research universitiesCredit: Sample courtesy of the Kozorovitskiy and O'Halloran groups, analysis software from ...
Researchers catch a wave to determine how forces control granular material properties
Credit: Johns Hopkins University Stress wave propagation through grainy, or granular, materials is important for detecting the magnitude of earthquakes, ...
Cartwheeling light reveals new optical phenomenon
Rice University study finds novel type of polarized light-matter interactionCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 29, 2020) - A ...
Understanding of relaxor ferroelectric properties could lead to many advances
Credit: MRI, Penn State A new fundamental understanding of polymeric relaxor ferroelectric behavior could lead to advances in flexible electronics, ...
Rice lab’s bright idea is pure gold
Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodesCredit: Illustration by Longji Cui and Yunxuan Zhu/Rice University ...
Stanford-led team shows how to store data using 2D materials instead of silicon chips
Researchers have invented a way to slide atomically-thin layers of 2D materials over one another to store more data, in ...
Multifunctional nanofiber protects against explosions
Material could protect soldiers, firefighters, astronauts and moreCredit: Grant Gonzalez/Harvard SEAS Since World War I, the vast majority of American ...
