Improving superalloy performance

Work from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien and Energie (HZB), and University of Münster, both in Germany, shows how new phases in a nickel-based alloy form and evolve, providing clues to how high-performance alloys could be improved.

Improving efficiency in flexible circuitry

Researchers at Stanford University, Calif., developed a process to create flexible chips that can tolerate power fluctuations in much the same way as silicon circuitry.