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.
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.
Designing a 3D-printed structure is hard enough when the product is inches or feet in size. Imagine shrinking it smaller than a drop of water, smaller even than a human hair, until it is dwarfed by a common bacterium.
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.
The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) is the world’s largest military air show, held annually over the third weekend in July, usually at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, England in support of The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust.
