Researchers Create New Lightweight 18-Carat Gold That Weighs 5 to 10 Times Less
ETH researchers have created an incredibly lightweight 18-carat gold, using a matrix of plastic in place of metallic alloy elements. Lovers of gold watches and…
ETH researchers have created an incredibly lightweight 18-carat gold, using a matrix of plastic in place of metallic alloy elements. Lovers of gold watches and…
Vehicles moving at hypersonic speeds are bombarded with ice crystals and dust particles in the surrounding atmosphere, making the surface material vulnerable to damage such…
‘Superdiamond’ Carbon-Boron Cages Can Trap and Tap Into Different Properties A long-sought-after class of “superdiamond” carbon-based materials with tunable mechanical and electronic properties was predicted…
Inspired by membranes in the body tissues of living organisms, scientists have combined aramid nanofibers used in Kevlar with boron nitride to construct a membrane…
An ultrathin coating developed by University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers upends a ubiquitous physics phenomenon of materials related to thermal radiation: The hotter an object gets,…
Researchers have used sound vibrations to shake metal alloy grains into tighter formation during 3D printing. A study just published in Nature Communications on January…
Transmorphic epitaxial growth of AlN nucleation layers on SiC substrates for high-breakdown thin GaN transistors. A new method to fit together layers of semiconductors as…
Researchers Create Nanoscale Sensors to Better See How High Pressure Affects Materials Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the…
McKelvey Engineering Mechanical Engineer Creates Bioinspired Evaporation Technique When drops of water touch the surface of a lotus flower leaf, they form beads and roll…
Clusters composed of a few atoms tend to be spherical. They are usually organized in shells of atoms around a central atom. This is the…
Researchers led by Professor MATSUYAMA Hideto and Professor YOSHIOKA Tomohisa at Kobe University’s Research Center for Membrane and Film Technology have succeeded in developing an…
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are valuable for a wide variety of applications. Made of graphene sheets rolled into tubes 10,000 times smaller than a human hair,…
Silicene consists of a single layer of silicon atoms. In contrast to the ultra-flat material graphene, which is made of carbon, silicene shows surface irregularities…
Lithium-ion batteries are notorious for developing internal electrical shorts that can ignite a battery’s liquid electrolytes, leading to explosions and fires. Engineers at the University…
A Plethora of States in Magic-Angle Graphene A team of ICFO researchers used twisted bi-layer graphene to unveil a new zoo of previously unobserved states,…
Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) teamed up with colleagues from Institute of Chemistry (FEB RAS), Institute for Single Crystals (Ukraine), and Shanghai Institute…
Combining silicon with a highly elastic polymer backing produces solar cells that have record-breaking stretchability and high efficiency. Crystalline silicon solar panels could be just…
For the first time, LEGO® has been cooled to the lowest temperature possible in an experiment that reveals a new use for the popular toy….