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Researchers Uncover Reason for Shorter Lifetimes in Sodium Batteries

Batteries power the lives of people: All are dependent on them to keep their cell phones and laptops active and their hybrid and electric cars on the road.

18 Jul 2019

Electronic Chip Mimics the Brain Using Light to Create and Alter Memories

Optogenetics, an emerging tool in biotechnology, was the source of inspiration for RMIT scientists to build a device that simulates the way the brain stores and loses information.

18 Jul 2019

Theory Explains Ferromagnetic Superconductor Behavior

Researchers from France and Russia have offered a theoretical explanation for the behavior of a recently discovered material combining superconducting and ferromagnetic properties.

12 Jul 2019

Integrating Combinatorial Materials Science with Computational Methods to Find New Materials

New materials are important for several things, including efficient energy conversion for eco-friendly engines of the future.

11 Jul 2019

Study May Help Develop New Materials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Light is converted into electrical energy by transition-metal complexes present in dye-based solar cells. This conversion has been described using a model of spatial charge separation inside the molecule.

10 Jul 2019

Patterns Formed by Self-Assembling Materials May be Useful in Optical Systems

Block copolymers are self-assembling materials that are capable of forming a wide range of regular and predictable patterns.

8 Jul 2019

New Simulation Model Helps Predict Building Damage

Kostas Keremidis, a PhD candidate at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, is utilizing research at the atomic scale to design buildings that can tolerate the largest of storms.

5 Jul 2019

Bringing Clean, Abundant Fusion Power to Earth Through Tiny Granules

Beryllium, a hard, silvery metal has been used for years in spacecraft and X-ray machines. Of late, the metal has a new role in the pursuit of extracting the power that drives the stars and sun to Earth.

3 Jul 2019

Atom Probe Tomography for Imaging and Analyzing Proteins

Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have designed a unique method for analyzing proteins which could pave the way for medicinal research. The scientists collected proteins in a nanocapsule made of glass and successfully developed a unique model of proteins in natural environments. The findings have been reported in the scientific journal, Small.

3 Jul 2019

Study on Effects of Water Salinity on Calcium Carbonate Nucleation

Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) formation in water has implications in everything from energy and food production to human health and the availability of potable water. But in the background of present-day environment, just exploring how calcium carbonate develops in pure water is not useful.

2 Jul 2019

Materials Science News

Researchers Uncover Reason for Shorter Lifetimes in Sodium Batteries

Electronic Chip Mimics the Brain Using Light to Create and Alter Memories

Theory Explains Ferromagnetic Superconductor Behavior

Integrating Combinatorial Materials Science with Computational Methods to Find New Materials

Study May Help Develop New Materials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Patterns Formed by Self-Assembling Materials May be Useful in Optical Systems

New Simulation Model Helps Predict Building Damage

Bringing Clean, Abundant Fusion Power to Earth Through Tiny Granules

Atom Probe Tomography for Imaging and Analyzing Proteins

Study on Effects of Water Salinity on Calcium Carbonate Nucleation

An Introduction to the Industrial Relevance of Powder Characterization

First Mixer Mill Worldwide with the Power of a Planetary Ball Mill

Working Life of Epoxies

VXmodel Scan-to-CAD Post-Treatment Software Module

Autosampler for Spinsolve Benchtop NMR Spectrometers

Precise and Reliable Measurement of Thin Film Stacks with Automated Spectroscopic Ellipsometry—SENDURO®MEMS

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Materials Science News

1 Researchers Develop World-Leading Compound Semiconductors Technology

2 Inter-Cluster and Intra-Cluster Dynamics of Thiolate-Protected Gold-Silver Alloys Revealed

3 New Method for Increasing the Efficiency of Solar Cells

4 Researchers Unveil How Soft Materials React to Deformation at Molecular Level

5 Bringing Clean, Abundant Fusion Power to Earth Through Tiny Granules

6 Electronic Chip Mimics the Brain Using Light to Create and Alter Memories

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