Many industries increasingly require materials that possess high specific strength and low density. To this end, various advanced materials have been explored and developed by researchers in recent years, with magnesium/eggshell composites proving particularly attractive.
By Reginald Davey
10 Dec 2021
A new review presented in the Global Challenges journal uses an innovative scientometric approach and the CiteSpace software to collate and quantitatively analyze the wide range of research into bone regeneration-related graphene-based materials and their applications.
By Adrian Thompson
10 Dec 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted scientific collaborations and advances in the fabrication of antimicrobial and antiviral surface coatings; a key tool in minimizing and ideally mitigating viral and bacterial transmission to, from, and between human beings.
By Adrian Thompson
10 Dec 2021
A novel breakthrough in making nontoxic halide perovskites as solar cell materials was considered in the journal ACS Omega.
By Akhlaqul Karomah
10 Dec 2021
A recent study was published in which via a thermomechanical "thiol-epoxy" click process, biocomposite and biodegradable epoxy vitrimer adhesives (ESOBV) with active borate ester linkages were produced from epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) and a dithiol borate ester curing agent (BDB). This research was published in European Polymer Journal.
By Ibtisam Abbasi
10 Dec 2021
A new finding in optimizing the heterojunction of metal alloy and carbon fiber by laser processing was considered in the journal Materials.
By Akhlaqul Karomah
10 Dec 2021
A collaborative research group from The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new sodium-based battery material that is more stable.
Researchers in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have developed a new physical model for controlling elastic wave propagation – a model that may potentially impact various applications, including acoustic cloaking, enhanced sensing, and energy tunneling.
Enzymes are capable of degrading synthetic polyisoprene. The specific conditions for that have now been created and exploited by researchers at Martin Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry.
Through their research efforts, the team was able to finally disprove an intuitive assumption that in order for two particles of matter to merge and form larger units, they must be attracted to each other.
Scientists from the University of British Columbia (UBC) have developed a first-ever flexible and washable battery. The battery works upon twisting or stretching to twice its usual length, or when tossed in the laundry.
In a recent study published in the journal Dyes and Pigments, researchers from Brazil developed metal complexes of curcumin dyes with a potential application in photodynamic therapy for skin treatment.
By Chinmay Saraf
10 Dec 2021
In a recent paper published in the journal Materials, researchers developed a new antibacterial polymer using reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization of thiazole moiety attached hydroxyethyl methacrylate monomer to obtain poly (2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) and a derivative of vitamin B1.
By Bismay Prakash Rout
10 Dec 2021
A group of researchers from Japan recently developed a process to repair enamel defects by depositing erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet pulse laser deposition process to form hydroxyapatite film coating on tooth.
By Bismay Prakash Rout
10 Dec 2021
The World Meteorological Organization reports that the levels of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere have increased like never before.