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British Engineers Reveal Ground-Breaking Electric Uncrewed Concept Vehicle

BAE Systems and Malloy Aeronautics have announced plans to explore the development of an all-electric ‘heavy lift’ uncrewed air system (UAS) as a potential new solution to deliver cost-effective, sustainable rapid response capability to military, security and civilian customers.

From Malloy Aeronautics Ltd 15 Sep 2021

Scientists Explore Method to Produce Composites with ‘shape memory’

Skoltech researchers have investigated a promising type of composite materials in terms of their shape memory behavior: how they resume their original shape following deformation if exposed to the right temperature or other conditions.

15 Sep 2021

New VESTAMID® Polyamide 12 Compound with Highest Fire Protection for Busbars

Essen/Marl. Evonik is expanding its portfolio of polyamide 12 compounds for insulating electrical conductors with the product VESTAMID® LX9050 OR.

From Evonik VESTAMID 14 Sep 2021

Argonne Scientists Find a Way to Potentially Enhance Material Properties

Argonne scientists have observed that when the shape of a thin film of metal oxide known as titania is confined at the mesoscale, its conductivity increases. This finding demonstrates that nanoscale confinement is a way to control quantum effects.

14 Sep 2021

SDSU Faculty Member Receives NSF CAREER Award for Developing Bioinspired Flexible Composites

South Dakota State University assistant professor Anamika Prasad is making history.

14 Sep 2021

Researchers Experimentally Show Superconductivity in Cerium Superhydrides

Scientists from Skoltech and their collaborators from China have experimentally demonstrated the occurrence of superconductivity in cerium superhydrides CeH9 and CeH10.

14 Sep 2021

Study Shows How Plasma Irradiation Damages Materials

Thermonuclear reactors, where energy is generated by combining hydrogen isotopes, are one of the potential means to overcome the global energy crisis.

14 Sep 2021

New Materials Testing Software Puts Electronic Components Under Test

HORSHAM, USA – Lloyd Instruments, specialists in materials testing equipment, announces the launch of its NexygenPlus 4.1 materials testing software. Image Credit: Lloyd Instruments Combined with the company&...

From Lloyd Instruments Ltd. 14 Sep 2021

Linde and EOS Credit ADDvance O2 Precision Technology with Success of Additive Manufacturing Study

Linde, the world’s foremost industrial gases company, and EOS, a leading supplier of responsible manufacturing solutions via industrial 3D printing technology, combined forces to conduct an important study into the influence of oxygen in the print process chamber and its effect on the critical properties of aluminium alloy AlSi10Mg.

From Linde plc 14 Sep 2021

New Cerium Superhydrides Become Stepping Stones to ‘Goldilocks’ Superconductors

Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from China have experimentally shown superconductivity in cerium superhydrides CeH9 and CeH10, pointing the way to lower-pressure and potentially room-temperature superconductors.

14 Sep 2021

How Magnetocaloric Materials can be Used for Cancer Treatment

Since the 1990s, scholars have been researching a unique type of cancer therapy known as magnetic hyperthermia. It involves creating heat in magnetic nanoparticles via the application of shifting magnetic fields which are applied to them.

By Marc Bonne 13 Sep 2021

$25 Million NSF Grant to Fund the Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand

On September 9, the National Science Foundation announced it will fund a new endeavor to bring atomic-level precision to the devices and technologies that underpin much of modern life, and will transform fields like information technology in the decades to come.

13 Sep 2021

New Methodology to Identify the Activity Origin of Industrial Reforming Catalyst

Researchers led by Prof. LIU Wei from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators developed a methodology of electron-microscopy-based atom recognition statistic to directly identify the activity origin of Pt/Al2O3 industrial reforming catalyst through atom-by-atom counting of over 18,000 Pt atoms.

13 Sep 2021

Researchers Create Longer-Lasting Lithium Sulfur Batteries by Simply Adding Sugar

Simply by adding sugar, researchers from the Monash Energy Institute have created a longer-lasting, lighter, more sustainable rival to the lithium-ion batteries that are essential for aviation, electric vehicles and submarines.

13 Sep 2021

Researchers Take a Significant Step to Efficiently Convert Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen into Ethanol

An international collaboration of scientists has taken a significant step toward the realization of a nearly "green" zero-net-carbon technology that will efficiently convert carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, and hydrogen into ethanol, which is useful as a fuel and has many other chemical applications.

13 Sep 2021