Rapid freezing of any liquid or even liquid metal leads to the formation of glass. Materials science research is currently focusing on metallic glasses or vitrified metals that have been formed by swiftly cooling alloys of a wide range of metals such as magnesium, copper, titanium, palladium, zirconium, and iron.
The most widely used construction material is concrete, and its production is a leading source of greenhouse gas emissions. However, some basic questions on this common construction material relating to its microscopic structure and behavior have remained unanswered.
Pollens hold promise for potential application as anodes in lithium-ion batteries, according to a team of researchers from the Purdue University.
UKAEA’s Technology Department has a new arrival - a novel mechanical testing system called ‘MeT1’.
A Franco-German cooperation has investigated a sandwich system of transition metal oxides at BESSY II. The scientists discovered a new option to control properties of the interface between the two layers, for instance the amount of charge transferred from one layer to the other or the emergence of ferromagnetism. Their insights might help to create new properties at the interface, not present in the primary materials, maybe even novel forms of High Tc superconductivity.
Researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have developed a new type of radio frequency identification (RFID) chip that is virtually impossible to hack.
Researchers David Moore and Timothy Briggs from Sandia National Laboratories and their teams are analyzing the inner parts of a composite material. Moore had a rectangular piece of carbon composite material with a surface that was smooth with a weak woven pattern.
A team of researchers at Umeå University have demonstrated, for the first time, the possibility of an efficient charge transport in semiconducting polymers, by controlled chain and crystallite orientation. These pioneering results, while enhancing polymer charge transport by over 1,000 times, can influence organic opto-electronic devices, and were published in a recent issue of Advanced Materials.
Oil and water don't mix, but when one is finely dispersed in the other a liquid mixture is produced with useful properties. An emulsion comprising of tiny droplets of one of the liquids immersed in the other is the usual form, found in salad dressings, cosmetics and industrial lubricants.
A research group at France's National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (INSA de Lyon) have discovered a technique to improve the mechanical energy harvesting performance potential of smart materials called, "electrostrictive polymers."
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