An international team of researchers have published a study in Cleaner Engineering and Technology exploring the recent advances in achieving the circular economy and the progress in associated technological applications.
By Reginald Davey
23 Feb 2022
To develop a novel, cost-effective, feasible, and harmless source of low-carbon electricity via nuclear fusion, materials engineers at the University of Surrey and the UK Atomic Energy Authority are extending a global effort.
Al-20Zn alloy reinforced with steel particles exhibits increased hardness and tensile strength, offering advancements for aerospace and automotive materials.
By Chinmay Saraf
23 Feb 2022
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have created a new type of coating that, when coated on a plastic surface, inhibits fogging and ‘self-cleans’, repressing the need for recurrent reapplications.
In a pre-print article posted to the server Research Square in submission to the journal Nature Portfolio, the researchers reported the aerial seeding with superior success rates using autonomous self-drilling seed carriers.
By Surbhi Jain
23 Feb 2022
As far as all modern electronics are concerned, lithium-ion batteries play a central role and are currently being implemented steadily in electric vehicles.
In a recent study published in the journal Vacuum, researchers from South Korea attempted to minimize the leakage current problem with ultrathin metal oxide insulation layers in memory devices such as dynamic random-access memory (DRAM).
By Bismay Prakash Rout
23 Feb 2022
In a pre-print article posted to the server Research Square in submission to the journal Nature Portfolio, researchers reported the development of inverse vulcanized polymers via mechanochemical methodology.
By Surbhi Jain
23 Feb 2022
Self-powered, self-healing technology sounds like something straight from the pages of a science-fiction tale, but now a group of researchers writing in the journal Nano Energy has developed an innovative and novel approach to produce self-healing elastomers with exceptional intrinsic stretchability and high self-healing efficiency.
By David J. Cross
23 Feb 2022
Hydrogen energy has received widespread attention and has been intensely investigated as an ideal candidate to replace traditional fossil fuels. Among many approaches to hydrogen production, semiconductor photocatalysis is considered to be one of the most ideal methods due to its easy operation and environmental friendliness.
Industrial processes often separate compounds from each other and out of solution using energy-intensive thermal separation, which involves multiple evaporation and condensation cycles. More recently, energy-efficient nanofiltration membranes have emerged as a sustainable alternative. But even these have their downside: fossil-based polymers and toxic chemicals are needed to make them.
Acenes have attracted a great deal of interest because they feature remarkable electronic properties such as spin-polarization and magnetism in the larger members of the family.
The new OmniScan™ X3 64 flaw detector delivers improved power and performance to Olympus’ field-proven phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) product line.
A new paper posted to the preprint server Research Square in submission to the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research has explored the use of rice husk ash as a potentially low-cost, more sustainable source of active silicon dioxide – an essential component in geopolymer production.
By Adrian Thompson
22 Feb 2022
Writing in Metals, a team of researchers from Jilin University in China have demonstrated strengthened H13 tool and die steels with trace nanoparticles which exhibit enhanced wear resistance and other industrially important properties.
By Reginald Davey
22 Feb 2022