A new material structure developed at MIT generates steam by soaking up the sun.
The warm beauty of amber was captivating and mysterious enough to inspire myths in ancient times, and even today, some of its secrets remain locked inside the fossilized tree resin.
Last October, Carbodeon published its data on thermal fillers showing that the conductivity of polyamide 66 (PA66) based thermal compound could be increased by 25 percent by replacing 0.1 wt.% of the typically maximum effective level of boron nitride filler (45 wt.%) with the company’s application fine-tuned nanodiamond material.
Takenaka Corporation, in collaboration with the National Institute for Materials Science (hereafter referred to as NIMS) and Awaji Materia Co., Ltd., jointly developed vibration dampers made of a new alloy, which has about 10 times longer low-cycle fatigue life than the steel material in common use today for vibration dampers.
Squid tentacles are loaded with hundreds of suction cups, or suckers, and each sucker has a ring of razor-sharp "teeth" that help these mighty predators latch onto and take down prey.
The NIMS Award 2014 goes to Professor Mitsuo Sawamoto at Kyoto University, who contributed to the establishment of a precision synthesis method of polymers, and Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski at Carnegie Mellon University, who developed atom transfer radical polymerization. A ceremony to present the award to the winners and their memorial lectures will be held at NIMS Conference 2014.
Having recently reached a milestone of over 100 operational in-process measuring units, manufacturer Xoptix Ltd is celebrating the difference that in-process monitoring technology is now making outside the laboratory and in everyday operations – differences that deliver material quality consistency, energy efficiency, reduced waste and higher profitability.
Wrinkles, creases and folds are everywhere in nature, from the surface of human skin to the buckled crust of the Earth. They can also be useful structures for engineers. Wrinkles in thin films, for example, can help make durable circuit boards for flexible electronics.
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has re-launched the National Corrosion Service (NCS), which provides a Gateway to Expertise on many aspects of materials degradation. Due to its major impact on the economy, corrosion continues to figure prominently in the remit of this service.
This past January, Derek Ahneman, a graduate student in the lab of Abigail Doyle, a Princeton University associate professor of chemistry, began work on an ambitious new project: he proposed the merger of two areas of research to enable a powerful reaction that neither could broadly achieve on its own.
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