A Clemson multidisciplinary team of engineering and business students work to provide a solution that will improve water quality on commercial airplanes.
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Teams of airborne 3D-printing drones could one day be used to complete construction projects in dangerous or hard-to-reach environments.
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Researchers at Stanford have developed a method of 3D printing that promises to create prints faster, using multiple types of resin in a single object.
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Roboze has started the construction of a cutting-edge laboratory dedicated to the development of future super materials. The new facility, located in Bari, Italy, will aim to accelerate the transition to sustainable manufacturing.
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The phenomenon in question is called anelasticity. It relates to how materials react to stresses over time. When the materials studied in this paper were bent, tiny defects moved slowly in response to the stress gradient. When the stress is released, the tiny defects slowly return to their initial positions, resulting in the anelastic behavior.
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The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Nano Electronic Materials Branch, used heat flow experiments to manipulate quantum materials into functioning in new and different ways at higher temperatures.
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According to Tohoku University researchers, high-performance carbon microlattice electrodes could soon be used to make cheaper batteries powered by readily available sodium ions.
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In an example of the adage “everything old is new again,” MIT engineers report a new discovery in semiconductors, well-known materials that have been the focus of intense study for over 100 years thanks to their many applications in electronic devices.
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Funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the program will address vulnerabilities in the domestic critical materials supply chain, which are both an economic disadvantage and an impediment to the clean energy transition.
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A pioneering project to develop advanced pressure sensors for use in robotic systems could transform prosthetics and robotic limbs.
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Shane Aaron Catledge, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Physics, was awarded a three-year Division of Materials grant from the National Science Foundation for his project “New frontiers in synthesis of high-entropy transition metal borides enabled by microwave-induced plasma.”
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The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and Osaka University Graduate School of Engineering have succeeded in fabricating a nickel single crystal with only a very few crystalline defects by irradiating nickel powder with a large-radius, flat-top laser beam.
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UNLV physicist Qiang Zhu’s efforts to accelerate new materials discovery is getting a jumpstart with $1.3 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). His work employs advanced computations to theorize the design and application of new materials.
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How do we reduce the carbon impact of an already green technology? This is the question that NREL researchers tackle in a paper in Joule, “Embodied Energy and Carbon from the Manufacture of Cadmium Telluride and Silicon Photovoltaics.”
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Quantum sensors, which detect the most minute variations in magnetic or electrical fields, have enabled precision measurements in materials science and fundamental physics. But these sensors have only been capable of detecting a few specific frequencies of these fields, limiting their usefulness. Now, researchers at MIT have developed a method to enable such sensors to detect any arbitrary frequency, with no loss of their ability to measure nanometer-scale features.
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Constellium, Paris, is entering into an agreement to provide Aheadd CP1, one of its proprietary additive manufacturing (AM) powder solutions, to Morf3D Inc., a subsidiary of Nikon Corp., specializing in AM optimization and engineering for the aviation, space, and defense industries.
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6K Additive, a division of 6K, a leader in the production of sustainable advanced materials for additive manufacturing and energy storage, has announced that Morf3D, a solution integrator leader in additive manufacturing for aerospace innovation, are collaborating to qualify metal powders for additive manufacturing.
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Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley demonstrated the ability to 3D-print microscopic objects in silica glass through volumetric additive manufacturing, part of an effort to produce delicate, layer-less optics that can be built in seconds or minutes.
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Henkel today announced the opening of its Application Center in Santa Clara, Calif., designed to support product development for the company’s high-tech customers in the Silicon Valley region.
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A team from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering has developed a new family of two-dimensional materials that researchers say has promising applications, including advanced electronics and high-capacity batteries.
Continue readingThe materials scientists from University of Freiburg, Dr. Frederik Kotz-Helmer and Professor Bastian E. Rapp, in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley, have come up with a novel process that could be used to rapidly and accurately generate very small components from transparent glass with the help of micro 3D printing.
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Smart shirts and artificial retinas will lift off to space alongside SpaceX’s Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station. The four astronauts plan to perform more than 200 experiments during their month missions-long.
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A team of researchers from the University of Toronto, Canada, has leveraged quantum mechanics to optimize the active layer within an inverted perovskite solar cell—a technology that could one day result in mass-market solar cells that cost a fraction of those currently on the market.
Continue readingBased on the “functional motif” idea, a study conducted by Dr. Xiao-Ming Jiang and Prof Guo-Cong Guo (Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences) presents a new research paradigm for material studies.
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Lehigh University, in partnership with The Ohio State University (Ohio State), has entered into a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) to develop novel structural materials for high-strength applications.
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When you stretch a material, it normally becomes thinner. Take the case of a rubber elastic band. Most materials behave like this. Yet, a small number of materials can become thicker when they are stretched.
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The National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) has succeeded in developing a new approach to the design of thermoelectric materials by constructing a database of electronic structure parameters correlated with materials’ thermoelectric conversion properties and by a comprehensive analysis of the database.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new computational tool that allows users to conduct simulations of multi-functional magnetic nanoparticles in unprecedented detail. The advance paves the way for new work aimed at developing magnetic nanoparticles for use in applications from drug delivery to sensor technologies.
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A problem in materials design is that in natural as well as artificial materials, volume occasionally drops, or surges, with rising temperature. While there are mechanical reasons for this occurrence for certain materials, a general insight into why this occasionally occurs is still lacking. However, a group of Penn State scientists has formulated a theory to elucidate and then forecast it: Zentropy.
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Hexcel Corporation broke ground on an expansion that will double the size of its existing engineered core manufacturing operation in Morocco to meet increased demand from aerospace customers for lightweight advanced composites.
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