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European Powder Metallurgy Conference Attracts Over 900 Delegates

The vibrant city of Barcelona was host to this year's Euro PM Congress organised and hosted by the European Powder Metallurgy Association. A truly international event it included delegates from nearly 50 countries in...

18 Oct 2011

Scientists Create Reconfigurable Electronic Materials

The Northwestern University researchers have created a novel electronic material that can reconfigure itself based on changing computational requirements.

18 Oct 2011

Springer and TMS Launch New Open Access Materials Journal

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and Springer officially announced the launch of a new Open Access journal, "Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation" or "IMMI", this week ...

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 17 Oct 2011

DOE Awards Grant to Develop Permanent Magnets for Efficient Electric Cars

Virginia Commonwealth University has received a contract totaling $2.9 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, ARPA-E, to develop and design a new class of permanent magnets to be used in energy-efficient electric car motors or generators.

17 Oct 2011

Researchers Visualize the Motion of Electrons During a Chemical Reaction for the First Time

A research group led by ETH Zurich has now, for the first time, visualized the motion of electrons during a chemical reaction. The new findings in the experiment are of fundamental importance for photochemistry and could...

16 Oct 2011

NanoSteel to Present Work on Metallic Glass and Glassy Nanomaterials at MS+T

The NanoSteel Company, a leader in bulk materials nanotechnology, today announced that two technical papers and a technical poster will be presented next week at the 2011 Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) Con...

From The NanoSteel® Company 13 Oct 2011

Alex Zunger to Receive Inaugural Materials Theory Award

The Materials Research Society (MRS) has named Alex Zunger, professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to receive the inaugural Materials Theory Award for his "development of the Inverse Band Structure approa...

12 Oct 2011

Defective Diamonds Still Prove Valuable

A University at Buffalo-led research team has established the presence of a dynamic Jahn-Teller effect in defective diamonds, a finding that will help advance the development of diamond-based systems in applications such as quantum information processing.

12 Oct 2011

Researchers Use Cheap Low Grade Silicon to Make Efficient Solar Cells

Researchers in Singapore have exploited advanced nanostructure technology to make a highly efficient and yet cheaper silicon solar cell. With this development, the researchers hope that the cost of solar energy can be ha...

12 Oct 2011

Researchers Develop Novel Method to Analyze Aggregated Nanoparticles

Dispersing the nanoparticles of a substance into a gas, their count and size distribution can be detected. However, certain nanoparticles have the tendency to form aggregates due to the change in the surrounding conditions.

12 Oct 2011

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