The Voestalpine Group, Austria, has opened a direct iron reduction plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, at a cost of $740 million, the largest investment ever made in the United States by an Austrian company.
Invisibility cloak sees past a wall
Fractal metamaterials triumph! The quest for front scatter has been realized. Watch a metal wall (monolith) get cloaked with fractal metamaterials, producing front scatter at nearly the intensity of the unobstructed path. Narrated by invisibility cloak source inventor, Nathan Cohen.
3D-printed metamaterial shrinks when heated
Members of Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s Additive Manufacturing Initiative, Calif, are among a group of researchers who have developed 3D printed materials with a unique property—instead of expanding when heated, they shrink.
Turning coal into carbon fiber
As U.S. coal production declines due to the rise of natural gas and alternative energies, the question remains: What will happen to those communities of coal workers?
Controlling matter properties in 2D crystals
By creating atomic chains in a 2D crystal, researchers at Penn State believe they have found a way to control the direction of materials properties in two and three dimensional crystals with implications in sensing, optoelectronics, and next-generation electronics applications.