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Jacobs has announced the official opening of a new innovation hub in Denmark to meet growing demand from advanced manufacturing, life sciences and infrastructure clients...
Building on its commitment to accelerating green growth, Holcim North America, a leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, today announced the introduction...
Leading construction materials supplier, Aggregate Industries, has launched Foamix Eco, a ground-breaking, onsite asphalt material that can achieve carbon neutral status....
Despite the commitment from various governments to reduce carbon emissions and ambitious goals from industry leaders to achieve net zero by 2050, the construction industr...
In the face of growing unpredictability in the bitumen market, TEC Container Solutions has announced a new approach to tackle the industry’s logistical challenges....
A new approach has allowed researchers at Aalto University to create a kind of metamaterial that has so far been beyond the reach of existing technologies. Unlike natural...
A high-efficiency circular vibration/polarization ultrasonic conversion technology capable of detecting cracks, which can occur in various directions within a structure,...
Self-assembled solidifying eutectic materials directed by a template with miniature features demonstrate uniqueΒ microstructuresΒ and patterns as a result of diffusion and...
Superhydrophobic surfaces, characterized by their ability to repel water with a contact angle above 150Β° and a sliding angle below 10Β°, offer a range of applications from...
Researchers have developed a sensor made from βfrozen smokeβ that uses artificial intelligence techniques to detect formaldehyde in real time at concentrations as low as...
Materials just atoms in thickness, known as two-dimensional (2D) materials, are set to revolutionize future technology, including in the electronics industry. However, co...
The production of aluminium generates around 180 million tonnes of toxic red mud every year.Β Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut fΓΌr Eisenforschung, a centre for iron r...
The circular economy just closed the loop on scrap aluminium, thanks to a new patent-pending technology developed at the Department of Energyβs Pacific Northwest National...
Weβve been using wood to build things for a very long time. According to theΒ recently discovered remains of a half-a-million-year-old wooden structure in Africa, weβve be...
In January 2024, the robotic arm 3D printer created by RIC Technology, a pioneering 3D printing company based in California, will be deployed to construct California...
In a world increasingly driven by technological advancements and the shift towards sustainable energy solutions, the global graphite industry stands at the forefront of t...
In the dynamic world of chemical reactions, understanding the fleeting moment of transition states β the ‘point of no return’ in a reaction β has long been a...
In hopes of producing concrete structures that can repair their cracks, researchers from Drexel UniversityβsΒ College of Engineering are putting a new twist on an old tric...
In an era where the clarion call for environmental sustainability resonates louder than ever, Eagle Materials Inc. has taken a definitive leap forward. The company recent...
For many decades, the rock mechanics community has tacitly assumed that a rock mass can be equated to the sum of fractures and intact rocks. Accordingly, it is believed t...
Peikko Group Corporation, a leading global supplier of concrete connections and composite structures, and Bouygues Travaux Publics, a French global player in construction...
Scientists have found that concreteβs compressive strength can be increased by 4,1% and its flexural strength by 3,4% by adding a small amount of coconut shell (only 5%)....
Researchers led by Prof. GAO Xiang from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. LU Lu from the Harbin Institute...
CRH, the global leader in building materials solutions, and Volvo Group, the leader in transport and infrastructure solutions, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (...
In a significant stride towards revolutionizing electrochemical research, a team at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology has introduced the ‘El...
Imagine a world without powders. It may sound exaggerated, but our daily lives are intricately connected to powders in various ways from foods, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics...
Polymers are large molecules that are made by linking a series of identical building blocks. They are attractive for manufacturing because they are inexpensive and easy t...
Scientists have suggested the technology that increases hardness and wear properties of titanium products. With the help of plasma electrolysis authors of the work have f...
Researchers have developed a new mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces, described in a paper published inΒ Nature Chemistry. The discovery challenges existing...
Proton exchange membrane hydrogen fuel cells (PEMFCs) used in hydrogen vehicles use expensive platinum catalysts to facilitate the oxygen reduction reaction at the anode....
Highly-Functional Material Week TOKYO, the premier event for advanced material technologies, scheduled to take place from October 4 to 6 at Makuhari Messe, Japan, will br...
The global landscape of advanced materials is rapidly evolving, with key sectors like films, metals, plastics, ceramics, adhesives, and paint and coatings undergoing grou...
From Rome’s Colosseum to the pyramids of the Mayans, ancient architecture has not only withstood the test of time but also provided invaluable lessons in durability...
In a strategic move aimed at conserving precious natural resources and advancing the principles of the circular economy, Hanson, a renowned leader in the UK construction...
IKST researchers develop analysis model using magnetic transport characteristics of molecules attached to the surface of MXene. Establishment of property prediction and c...
Some 2,000 years ago in ancient Rome, glass vessels carrying wine or water, or perhaps an exotic perfumes, tumble from a table in a marketplace, and shatter to pieces on...
The eagerly anticipated Highly-Functional Material Week TOKYO, taking place from October 4 to 6 at the renowned Makuhari Messe in Tokyo, is poised to become a convergence...
The modern world is filled with synthetic polymers, long-chained molecules designed by scientists to fill all manner of applications. Researchers at FAMU-FSU College of E...
Inspired by the need to safeguard marine animals and promote sustainable solutions within marine environments, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from King Abdullah...
Traditional viscometers rely on capillary flow, and falling balls are simple and effective means for measuring fluid viscosity over a large range. However, their low meas...
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