Already well known for the Materials Camp Program for both high school students and teachers, the ASM Materials Education Foundation has launched the Materials Matter program for middle school students.
Researchers have developed a multi-layered “sensing skin” to detect corrosive or otherwise harmful substances in structures. The skin can also detect cracks and other structural flaws that are invisible to the naked eye.
Researchers are pushing the limits of electron microscopy into the tens of picometer scale, a fraction of the size of a hydrogen atom.
An electric car currently relies on a complex interplay of both batteries and supercapacitors to provide the energy it needs to go places. But chemists are developing a new material that could change that.
The University of Texas at San Antonio announces that its researchers have received a $248,083 grant to support R&D to increase the strength of concrete rebar from 60 ksi to ~100 ksi.
