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Lehigh Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Thermophoresis in Space

It's the rare engineer who gets to conduct experiments in space. But Lehigh University now has three who will be doing just that.

20 Sep 2021

Battery Ventures Acquires Global Specialty Materials and Advisory Company Goodfellow

Battery Ventures, a global, technology-focused investment firm, announced it has acquired Goodfellow, a specialist supplier of high-quality materials for research and development, prototyping and specialised manufacturing. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

From Goodfellow 20 Sep 2021

Physics of Water Drops Could Improve Design of Aircraft Design and Hydrophobic Materials

How do the physics of falling water drops and the flexible leaf surface interact? What relevance does it have in the future of aircraft design? Scientists from IIT Bombay explain.

20 Sep 2021

Summit Manufacturing and Metrios Introduce New Type of Measuring Machine

Summit Manufacturing Systems and Metrios are introducing a new type of measuring machine to New England.

From Metrios 20 Sep 2021

Additive Manufacturing and its Challenges in the Aerospace Industry: 3rd Edition of the AAMS

On 22nd and 23rd September, the Aerospace Additive Manufacturing Summit (AAMS) the international business summit dedicated to Additive Manufacturing in the aerospace industry will bring together, during two days, at the MEETT in Toulouse, France, most of the key players in this field: manufacturers, suppliers, major companies, SMEs, small companies and researchers.

20 Sep 2021

New Theory Tackles Energy Efficiency Issues in Lithium-Ion Batteries

An international team of researchers along with two Skoltech scientists has shown via an experiment that a long-standing interpretation for low energy efficiency in lithium-ion batteries is not valid.

17 Sep 2021

Coating Bacteria with Silver Nanoparticles Boosts the Performance of Microbial Fuel Cells

Coating Shewanella bacteria with silver nanoparticles greatly boosts the performance of biofilm-based microbial fuel cells, researchers report. It achieves this effect by improving the transfer of electrons from the microbe to graphene electrodes in the fuel cells.

17 Sep 2021

Pyrrole Discovery Could Enable the Development of New Compounds with Unique Properties

A new approach leads to the long-awaited formation of rings made of three pyrroles, which could be used to produce compounds with a host of interesting properties, and explains why they have not been observed before.

17 Sep 2021

Researchers Create a Simpler and Faster Way to Stack Extremely Thin Films of Material

Stacking extremely thin films of material on top of each other can create new materials with exciting new properties.

17 Sep 2021

Sustainable Water-Resistant Coating Made Using Ultrathin Self-Healing Polymers

Researchers have discovered a new method to develop ultrathin surface coatings strong enough to resist scratch and dings. The new material was created by combining thin films and self-healing technologies.

17 Sep 2021

North American Demo Lab will expand Covalent’s chemical analysis services and showcase HORIBA’s analytical instrumentation

HORIBA Scientific, a global leader in the production of high-performance spectroscopy systems and solutions, announces a partnership with Covalent Metrology, a leading North American provider of analytical services, to e...

From HORIBA 16 Sep 2021

Scientists Fabricate Tiny Gas Sensors Using New Materials and 3D Printing

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin and AMBER, the SFI Research Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research, have discovered a way to fabricate tiny colour-changing gas sensors using new materials and a high-resolution form of 3D printing.

16 Sep 2021

New Conjugated Polymer Could Enhance Performance of Photovoltaic Cells

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have synthesized a new conjugated polymer for organic electronics using two different chemical reactions and shown the impact of the two methods on its performance in organic and perovskite solar cells.

16 Sep 2021

2D Semiconductor Devices Could Help Design High-Performance Electronics

A newly discovered class of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors could lead to the creation of high-performance and energy-efficient electronics, according to scientists from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).

16 Sep 2021

Empa Researcher Transforms Cotton into a Fire-Resistant Material

The release of formaldehyde and lack of comfort when worn are the downsides to advanced flame-retardant cotton textiles. Researchers at Empa have succeeded in circumventing these issues by developing a chemically and physically independent network of flame retardants within the fibers.

16 Sep 2021

Materials Science News

Lehigh Researchers Awarded Grant to Study Thermophoresis in Space

Battery Ventures Acquires Global Specialty Materials and Advisory Company Goodfellow

Physics of Water Drops Could Improve Design of Aircraft Design and Hydrophobic Materials

Summit Manufacturing and Metrios Introduce New Type of Measuring Machine

Additive Manufacturing and its Challenges in the Aerospace Industry: 3rd Edition of the AAMS

New Theory Tackles Energy Efficiency Issues in Lithium-Ion Batteries

Coating Bacteria with Silver Nanoparticles Boosts the Performance of Microbial Fuel Cells

Pyrrole Discovery Could Enable the Development of New Compounds with Unique Properties

Researchers Create a Simpler and Faster Way to Stack Extremely Thin Films of Material

Sustainable Water-Resistant Coating Made Using Ultrathin Self-Healing Polymers

North American Demo Lab will expand Covalent’s chemical analysis services and showcase HORIBA’s analytical instrumentation

Scientists Fabricate Tiny Gas Sensors Using New Materials and 3D Printing

New Conjugated Polymer Could Enhance Performance of Photovoltaic Cells

2D Semiconductor Devices Could Help Design High-Performance Electronics

Empa Researcher Transforms Cotton into a Fire-Resistant Material

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