Romanian researchers have recently presented a study, published in the journal Materials, in which they investigated the mechanical properties of hybrid polymer CAD/CAM restorations for dental applications.
By David J. Cross
30 Nov 2021
Nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize many of today’s advanced systems and machinery via the manipulation of matter on a near-atomic scale to produce new structures, materials, and devices.
By David J. Cross
30 Nov 2021
Researchers from China recently developed a strategy to reuse waste graphite anodes of spent lithium-ion batteries.
By Bismay Prakash Rout
30 Nov 2021
Researchers from RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, have developed a sustainable 3D concrete printing process for building structures by replacing 50% of natural river sand with different grades of recycled glass. This study is available in the journal Construction and Building Materials.
By Bismay Prakash Rout
30 Nov 2021
Carbon is one of the most abundant elements found in nature, not least because it forms the building blocks of life on Earth. New research in the journal Diamond & Related Materials considers three new super-hard carbon allotropes.
By Adrian Thompson
30 Nov 2021
Self-healing materials offer the potential to help address a number of global issues including the urgent need to produce and pollute less, and the requirement to move to a more sustainable way of life across all areas of society and industry.
By Adrian Thompson
30 Nov 2021
In a paper published in the journal Molecules, researchers from China have developed a CaCO3@SiO2 hydrophobic composite by depositing nanoscale silica on calcium carbonate.
By Susha Cheriyedath
30 Nov 2021
Water pollution is an ever-present problem for modern society, and heavy metals from sectors such as industry and mining are particularly problematic due to their negative effect on ecosystems.
By Reginald Davey
30 Nov 2021
Flexible electronics are a technology that is growing in popularity due to its potential applications in a variety of fields such as sensors, medical devices, and soft robotics.
By Reginald Davey
30 Nov 2021
Food quality is of paramount importance to the food and catering industries. Now, a paper published in Molecules has presented an innovative solution to keeping meat products fresh and improve their quality, shelf-life, and sensory properties: edible onion biofilms.
By Reginald Davey
30 Nov 2021
Buildings are a big contributor to global warming, not just in their ongoing operations but in the materials used in their construction.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge, Brookhaven and Idaho national laboratories and Stony Brook University have developed a novel approach to gain fundamental insights into molten salts, a heat transfer medium important to advanced energy technologies.
Fluorophores, a chemical compound that can emit light, can be used as fluorescent labels for bioimaging, and fluorescent probes to detect a wide range of chemical species and physical parameters.
Catalysts based on transition metals have been of particular interest in various fields of science for some time now. They are used in pharmaceuticals, natural products, chemicals, aromatic hydrocarbon hydrogenation, etc.
Polymers, the basis of all plastics, usually do not have an ordered structure, in contrast to biopolymers such as proteins.