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New Binder Jet Powders Enable 3D Printing of Components with Increased Wear Resistance

NanoSteel®, a pioneering company in nano-structured materials design, has introduced powders for the binder jet 3D printing process and its first commercial use in additive manufacturing.

25 Sep 2015

Successful Flight of UAV Part-Constructed with Graphene

A pioneering collaboration between two North West universities has resulted in a successful world-first aeronautic flight test.

25 Sep 2015

Research Highlights of September 2015 Issue of the University of Electro-Communications e-Bulletin

Research highlights of the September 2015 issue of the University of Electro-Communications e-Bulletin include: innovative organolead halide perovskite solar cells solar cells with conversion efficiencies over 20%; quantum dot solar cells; analysis of apparently smooth movements that may help to understand jerky motor motion; and Professor Takayoshi Kobayashi’s pioneering research on ultrashort pulse lasers, ultrafast spectroscopy, and quantum information.

25 Sep 2015

Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Effectively Trap and Store Greenhouse Gases

A team of scientists from the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur are exploring ways of using vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) for capturing and storing specific green house gases.

24 Sep 2015

Synthetic Material Made of Nanomagnets Exhibits Phase Transitions

A new synthetic material made up of 1 billion very small magnets was developed by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).

22 Sep 2015

Versatile, Scalable Technique to Produce Large 2D Sheets of Molybdenum Telluride

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), along with scientists from China and Japan have developed a method to produce thin electronic materials in sizes which are larger than tiny flakes.

22 Sep 2015

Ultrathin Invisibility Cloak Conceals 3D Objects

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and the University of California (UC), Berkeley, have collaborated to create a microscopic, ultrathin invisibility “skin” cloak that has the ability to conceal 3D objects of arbitrary shape from detection using visible light.

18 Sep 2015

Manganese Steel Forms Different Crystal Structure at Typical Linear Defects

Researchers at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf have discovered that manganese steel forms a different crystal structure at typical linear defects.

14 Sep 2015

Ultrafast Electron Camera Helps Understand the Motion of Monolayers

A research initiative led by scientists from Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory reveals the motion of individual atoms at a speed of trillionths of a second, creating wrinkles on a material that is three atoms thick.

14 Sep 2015

Innovative Assembly Method Quickly Transforms 2D Structures into Complex 3D Shapes

Researchers from the Northwestern University, Tsinghua University and the University of Illinois have developed a method that uses cuts in a material to assemble complex 3D nano- and microstructures from materials like silicon.

10 Sep 2015

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