There are still many challenges to overcome, to create a reliable electrochemical storage device with high energy and high power densities.
By Liam Critchley
20 Mar 2017
In the world of materials sciences, metal fatigue describes the weakening of a material that occurs as a result of being exposed to repeated applied work or stress loads.
By Benedette Cuffari
16 Mar 2017
Unlike naturally occurring dense ceramics, man-made ceramics often require sintering temperature in excess of 1400 °C for densification to occur.
By Liam Critchley
13 Mar 2017
In what has been described has the worst environmental disaster to ever occur in the history of the United States on April 20, 2010, the BP Oil Spill involved a continuous spillage of an estimated 205.8 million gallons of oil and methane gas into the Gulf of Mexico for a duration of 87 straight days
By Benedette Cuffari
14 Mar 2017
In recent years, there has been huge advancements in 3D printing technologies, graphene research and energy storage.
By Liam Critchley
9 Mar 2017
Self-reversed magnetic hysteresis (SRMH) is a unique hysteresis phenomenon containing an antiparallel magnetisation to an applied magnetic field. This leads to an inverted hysteresis loop with a ‘negative’ net area.
By Liam Critchley
3 Mar 2017
The control of acoustic applications such as loudspeaker design, ultrasound imaging and acoustic particle manipulation currently relies on using fixed lenses and expensive phased arrays.
By Liam Critchley
2 Mar 2017
Researchers at the University of Cornell’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology have recently developed a polymer that can combine PE and iPP.
By Benedette Cuffari
1 Mar 2017
Heterostructures are structures formed by reassembling isolated atomic layers such as graphene, hBN or TMDCs, one on top of each other in a precise chosen sequence to form a complex structure which has unusual properties and potential applications.
By Benedette Cuffari
20 Feb 2017
An international team of researchers has now made this dream a reality. The team have managed to produce an innovative strategy to fabricate 2D polymers that consist of interwoven polymer fibres, held together by the interlocking mechanical forces that arise from the weaved pattern.
By Liam Critchley
20 Feb 2017