Researchers from North Carolina State University, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and UNSW Australia measured the behavior of specific atoms in dielectric materials when exposed to an electric field.
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Materials scientists at Pennsylvania State University, State College, created a polymer dielectric material with high energy density, high power density, and excellent charge-discharge efficiency for electric and hybrid vehicle use.
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For all the promise they have shown in the lab, polymer solar cells still need to “get on a roll”—like the ones employed in printing newspapers so that large sheets of acceptably efficient photovoltaic devices can be manufactured continuously and economically.
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In lithium-ion batteries, a singly charged lithium atom, or ion, flows between two electrodes while one electron is contributed to the electrical current in the external circuit.
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Researchers from South Dakota State University, Brookings, are using biochar, an inexpensive carbon-rich material and a new method of creating the porous surface needed to capture electricity to reduce the cost of supercapacitors.
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One of the hottest new materials is a class of porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. Scientists around the world are working on ways to use the synthetic materials for things like hydrogen storage, carbon sequestration, or photovoltaics.
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Stainless steel rebar produced by Outokumpu, Finland, is being used to reinforce a spill basin at the new liquefied natural gas (LNG) Gate Terminal on Rotterdam’s North Sea coast.
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Fans of Superman surely recall how the “Man of Steel” used immense heat and pressure generated by his bare hands to form a diamond out of a lump of coal.
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There’s a new tool in the push to engineer rechargeable batteries that last longer and charge more quickly.
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Sandy silicon dioxide nanoparticles coated with a high dielectric constant polymer could inexpensively provide improved cooling for increasingly power-hungry electronic devices.
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A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tenn., developed a novel way to produce 2D nanosheets by separating bulk materials with nontoxic liquid nitrogen.
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A highly sensitive chemical sensor based on Raman spectroscopy and using nitrogen-doped graphene as a substrate was developed by an international team of researchers working at Penn State.
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Titanium is the leading material for artificial knee and hip joints because it is strong, wear-resistant and nontoxic, but adding gold might make implants even better.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, and the U.S. Army Research Office, White Oak, Md., developed a way to integrate novel functional materials onto a computer chip to create new smart devices and systems.
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Ferritic stainless steels are quite similar in their mechanical behavior to carbon steel. The main influence of chromium is to produce some solid solution hardening.
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The Edison Welding Institute (EWI) has purchased an industry-leading Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM) system from Sciaky Inc., Chicago, a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries Inc.
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A newly formed alliance called ALTec Industrial R&D Group is consolidating efforts in the Canadian aluminum sector to develop innovative aluminum products for ground transportation vehicles.
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Friction and drag are commonplace in nature. These phenomena are experienced when riding in an airplane, pairing electrical wiring, or rubbing pieces of sandpaper together.
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Updates from the Consortium for the Advancement of Shape Memory Alloy Research and Technology (CASMART).
Continue readingA University of California, Irvine engineer invented a method for analyzing nanowires at temperatures approaching 800°F in first-ever experiments, showing the valuable role the materials could play in converting excess heat from machines and electronics into useable electricity.
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Materials researchers at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, fine-tuned a technique that enables them to apply precisely controlled silica coatings to quantum dot nanorods in one day.
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Morgan Advanced Materials, UK, plans to establish a cutting-edge Carbon Science Center of Excellence at Pennsylvania State University, State College, aimed at driving global developments in the field of carbon research.
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Engineers are attaching sensors to locusts so they can monitor how the insects sniff out odors.
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Alcoa, Pittsburgh, opened a state-of-the-art, 3D printing metal powder production facility at the Alcoa Technology Center.
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The ASM Materials Education Foundation supports educators through a free 40-hour materials science workshop called the ASM Materials Camp®-Teachers.
Continue readingWith the advent of nanotechnology, not only can tiny particles be deposited, but the target surfaces or substrates can also be tailored to control the resulting structures.
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Researchers from KU Leuven (Belgium), the University of Strasbourg, and CNRS, both in France, discovered a new phosphor that could make next-generation fluorescent and LED lighting even less expensive and more efficient.
Continue readingThe IMS Buehler Technical Paper of Merit award is selected each year by the IMS Buehler Best Paper Award Committee led by Dr. Mike Keeble, U.S. Labs and Technology Manager of Buehler Ltd. Papers are chosen from manuscripts published in Metallography, Microstructure, and Analysis (MMA).
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A new microchip contains 1000 independent programmable processors. The energy-efficient KiloCore chip has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors.
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Scientists have only found two quasicrystals on Earth. These super rare crystal-like solids have supposedly impossible symmetries. New experiments could explain why they’re so rare: Collisions between asteroids may have caused them.
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