A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus, or stiffness-to-weight ratio. The new metal is composed of magnesium infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide nanoparticles. It could be used to make lighter airplanes, spacecraft, and cars, helping to improve fuel efficiency, as well as in mobile electronics and biomedical devices.
Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens hits movie screens this week with its intense plot, edge-of-your-seat action scenes and, of course, lots of lightsabers. But is it actually possible to create a real-life lightsaber or build a functioning Death Star laser? To answer these questions and more, Reactions explores the science behind the Star Wars franchise.
Scientists at Washington State University (WSU) have created a new catalyst that is capable of changing bio-based ethanol into isobutene, an industrial chemical that is used in many applications.
A researcher at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) is using 3D printing technology to gain a better insight into the formation of galaxies and the evolution of the universe and its cosmic structures.
Starting January 2016, AXT will be distributing the complete range of DENSsolutions in situ TEM systems in Australia and New Zealand, further extending their comprehensive microscopy product portfolio.
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The power of electron guns has been increased by a factor of 13,000 by the addition of tiny diamonds on the gun tip. This increase in power was also associated with an increase in accuracy. It is hoped this technique will be adapted in the next generation of particle accelerators and electron microscopes.
The first week of December sees the Materials Research Society's 40th annual fall meeting and exhibit in Boston, MA.
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Wearing your mobile phone display on your jacket sleeve or an EKG probe in your sports kit are not off in some distant imagined future. Wearable “electronic textiles” are on the way. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Chinese researchers have now introduced a new type of fiber-shaped supercapacitor for energy-storage textiles. Thanks to their shape memory, these textiles could potentially adapt to different body types: shapes formed by stretching and bending remain “frozen”, but can be returned to their original form or reshaped as desired.
“Moore’s law”, according to which chip performance would double approximately every two years, approaches its limit: soon it would be impossible to produce smaller transistors. A new quest, nick-named “more than Moore”, aims to add new functionalities within each chip by integrating smart materials on top of their silicon base.
A novel material that displays both the stiff behavior or a solid and the soft, visoelastic behavior of a polymer gel has been developed. The material is a hybrid of a metal organic cage and a metallogel and could be used for specific gas storage, targeted drug delivery and water filtration.
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