Materials scientists at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and colleagues from five other universities around the world have discovered the major reason why perovskite solar cells, which show great promise for improved energy-conversion efficiency, degrade in sunlight, causing their performance to suffer over time.
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Researchers led by a team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced a major theoretical and experimental breakthrough that allows scientists to predict, with an unprecedented precision, when a soft material will crack and fail.
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Envista Forensics, a global forensic consulting firm, has announced the first of a series of in-house materials science lab capabilities.
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A novel engineered surface material called RepelWrap is offering great promise in medical settings – among myriad other uses.
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Concrete fractures that are invisible to the naked eye stand out in images produced through a technique created at Rice University. A collaboration between research groups at Rice and the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research discovered by chance that common Portland cement contains microscopic crystals of silicon that emit near-infrared fluorescence when illuminated with visible light.
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Delivering what has been so challenging to produce, researchers present an engineered analog of tooth enamel – an ideal model for designing biomimetic materials – designed to closely mimic the composition and structure of biological teeth’s hard mineralized outer layer. It demonstrates exceptional mechanical properties.
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The results of this paper rely on the novel observation that these maximally auxetic metamaterials deform conformally, which the researchers confirmed with a high degree of accuracy. This means that any angle drawn on the material before and after deformation will still look like the same angle. This seemingly mundane observation activates powerful mathematical structures.
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An Australian aerospace engineering start-up is partnering with the University of Sydney to build a zero emissions hypersonic spaceplane capable of deploying small satellites into low earth orbit.
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A new technology solution that will provide low-power systems for use in bionic eyes, has been jointly developed by academics from the Harbin Institute of Technology and Northumbria University.
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A new breakthrough concerning electromagnetic wave absorption building materials is considered in the Journal of Materials Science & Technology. Advanced coating materials with green technology can make building more sustainable in the coming years.
Continue readingThe ancient arts of origami, the art of paper-folding, and kirigami, the art of paper-cutting, have gained popularity in recent years among researchers building mechanical metamaterials. Folding and cutting 2D thin-film materials transforms them into complex 3D structures and shapes with unique and programmable mechanical properties.
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A new study has found that a material can mimic the sea slug’s most essential intelligence features. The discovery is a step toward building hardware that could help make AI more efficient and reliable for technology ranging from self-driving cars and surgical robots to social media algorithms.
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A new generation of luminescent materials has the potential to cool cities by re-emitting light that would otherwise be converted into heat. They might also cut down on energy use, since luminescent sidewalks, glowing road markers, or even glowing buildings could replace some street lighting.
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Researchers in Korea succeeded in developing a core material for the next-generation neuromorphic (neural network imitation) semiconductor for the first time in the country.
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Research teams from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their technologies have received seven 2021 R&D 100 Awards, plus special recognition for a COVID-19-related project.
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found new ways of controlling how heat flows through thin materials by stacking atomically thin layers of atoms into van der Waals heterostructures. By comparing different stacks of different materials, or even the same material after heat treatment, they found that weak coupling and mismatch between layers helped significantly reduce heat transport.
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The National University of Singapore (NUS) has launched the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM) – the world’s first institute dedicated to the design, synthesis, and application of Functional Intelligent Materials.
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Applied research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory suggests that replacing lithium-ion batteries with better technology may be possible sooner than expected.
Continue readingBrooks Instrument, a leader in precision fluid measurement and control technology, has released the new GP200 Series, the first fully pressure-insensitive, pressure-based, mass flow controller designed specifically for etch and chemical vapor deposition processes in semiconductor manufacturing.
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Motion and control technology manufacturer Parker Hannifin Corp., announced that Lee C. Banks, currently president and chief operating officer, was elected by the company’s board of directors to a new role as vice chairman and president.
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A biodegradable and customizable 3D-printed vascular graft could help prevent heart failure in cardiovascular patients.
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Australian researchers have used plasma to make a material that could replace a scarce element used in solar cells, touch screens, and a number of other high-tech manufacturing areas.
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Imagine a metal, scaffold-shaped implant that could support the regrowth of a shattered bone. All that would be needed would be an initial CT scan, a virtual construction of the implant, and a metal printer to produce the final product. Devastating outcomes like amputation or loss of the ability to walk could be prevented.
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Spanish startups Pangea Aerospace and Aenium Engineering will have the exclusive capabilities to develop and industrialize advanced 3D printed propulsion systems in Europe made from an innovative copper-alloy material created by NASA called GRCop-42.
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Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from RAS Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, ITMO University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russia, have found a way to increase photoluminescence in silicon, the notoriously poor emitter and absorber of photons at the heart of all modern electronics.
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Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Ill., along with three universities, have revealed new insights into the mechanism behind how gallium nitride crystals grow at the atomic scale.
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Picosun Group, Finland, has further optimized its Picosun Sprinter ALD system processes successfully for semiconductor, display, and IoT component manufacturing lines.
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Industrial 3D printer manufacturer Titan Robotics has announced the launch of its new Atlas-HS hybrid additive manufacturing system. The system comes complete with a tool changer that works with both a pellet extrusion head and a 3-axis milling toolhead, enabling 3D printed parts to be machined during and after the printing process.
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Researchers successfully demonstrated that adding clusters of gold nanoparticles to shape-memory polymers, then stretching them, changes their plasmon-coupling traits, allowing them to have different and beneficial optical properties.
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A team of researchers from the University of Rochester, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Nevada Las Vegas have reduced the amount of pressure required to force a material to become superconductive at room temperature, improving on their own previous results. In their paper, the group outlines their technique and plans for the future.
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