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Stretchable, Integrated Circuits Hold Promise for Wearable Electronics

A range of smart, wearable, wireless electronics, which have varied applications right from fitness monitoring or sun exposure to charging other electronics, playing music or purifying air, have occupied a large portion of the consumer marketplace.

31 May 2016

Metal-Containing Compound Shows Potential for Photolithography Applications

A team of researcher have developed a novel a metal-containing compound, which changes to a solid with exposure to light and on heating returns back to liquid form. The study was headed by Professor MOCHIDA Tomoyuki from Kobe University Graduate School of Science and Dr. FUNASAKO Yusuke from Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi.

31 May 2016

New Device Could Act as Gatekeeper of Light

Visualize an instrument that is transparent to different wavelengths of light for an instant and turns opaque the next, after a small alteration.

27 May 2016

Magnetic Resonance Reveals Important Changes in Wood Structure

Heat treatment has shown to be an efficient approach to enhance certain valuable properties of wood. Latest technological developments have enabled the following to be attained; higher hydrophobic properties, improved elasticity, and enhanced dimensional stability, among other things.

27 May 2016

MIT Researchers Study Natural Materials to Develop Stronger, More Durable Concrete

MIT scientists are exploring new ways to make stronger and more durable concrete by studying the blueprints of nature. Concrete is considered to be the world’s most commonly used man-made material.

27 May 2016

AGC Asahi Glass Develops More Stable Amorphous C12A7 Electride Thin Film

AGC Asahi Glass (AGC) has used a special sputtering target material to create a uniform amorphous thin film called C12A7 Electride. The company has begun industrialization and commercial fabrication of the new material.

26 May 2016

Breakthrough Method for Making Corrosion-Resistant Layered Boride Materials

One of the hardest and highly heat-resistant substances on Earth is boride. However, just like many materials, this also oxidizes when exposed to high temperatures.

26 May 2016

Study Corroborates Superexchange is Dominant Mechanism for Magnetic Exchange in MnO

For the past six decades, researchers have been striving to find out how manganese oxide (MnO) attains its long-range magnetic order of alternating up and down electron spins. Currently, a group of researchers has used their newly created mathematical approach to examine the short-range magnetic interactions that they hope would drive this long-range order.

26 May 2016

Researchers Discover How Mode-2 Waves Transport Materials

Oceans generally seem to look like a mass of water standing all alone like a separate entity. Despite this assumption, it should be noted that oceans spread all over the world are made up of layers with varied densities, referred to as stratifications, comprising complex fluid dynamics.

26 May 2016

Researchers Find New Ways to Dope Diamond Crystals for Use in Semiconductors

Diamonds are often referred to as “girl’s best friend”, and they also possess certain extraordinary properties which could make them viable as semiconductors.

26 May 2016

Longer Life for Flexible Electronics with Picosun ALD

Picosun Oy, the leading supplier of high quality ALD (Atomic Layer Deposition) production solutions, brings to the printed electronics market ALD equipment specifically designed for large area flexible electronics encaps...

From Picosun Oy 26 May 2016

Researchers Develop New Metallic Material that Could Transform Steel Industry

A team of researchers from the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf have created a novel metallic material, which possesses very high strength as well as ductility simultaneously.

25 May 2016

Study Findings Pave Way for Efficient, Economical Single-Step Hydrogen Peroxide Production

A complex process is required to synthesize dilute hydrogen peroxide at the large scale and this process seems to be economically unfeasible for most industrial applications except for a few industrial facilities.

25 May 2016

MIT Researchers Make Significant Inroads Toward Improving Perovskites’ Performance

Perovskites are a group of compounds that can be made into thin films with many potential optical and electronic properties. In the past few years, these compounds have been a subject of intense research.

25 May 2016

Flow/No Flow Sensor with Hazloc Approval

Detect even the tiniest trickle of flow in powders, granules, pellets, and solids. The Flow Detect 2000 prevents cross contamination by making sure flow has stopped completely before switching over to a new material.

From BinMaster 25 May 2016