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at the Department of Energyβs Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that demonstrates how fibre-reinforced polymer composite materials used in the automot...
Engineering structures made of concrete, steel, or other materials are subject to vibrations and stress. Because of this, small cracks appear, which grow and eventually l...
Many electric vehicles are powered by batteries that contain cobalt β a metal that carries high financial, environmental, and social costs. MIT researchers have now desig...
Armouring Steel to make even Tougher Materials Researchers demonstrated thatΒ stainless steel and other metal alloys coated with hexagonal boron nitride, or hBN, exhibit n...
Issues such as abrupt changes in speed limits and incomplete lane markings are among the most influential factors that can predict road crashes, finds new research by Uni...
As electronic devices get smaller, the materials needed to create them get smaller as well. NanoscienceΒ is the study of extremely small materials that find uses in energy...
A new automated workflow developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has the potential to allow researchers to analyse the products of...
Researchers are using new, experimental techniques like Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion (ShAPE™) and friction stir welding to produce metal components that...
Researchers at Hokkaido University have taken a significant step forward in the drive to make recyclable yet stable plastics from plant materials. This is a key requireme...
Batteries are usually studied via electrical properties like voltage and current, but new research suggests that observing how heat flows in conjunction with electricity...
TheΒ Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has developed a damage prevention and early detection system for buried pipelines, preventing pipeline failures caus...
Is there a way to stick hard and soft materials together without any tape, glue or epoxy? A new study published inΒ ACS Central ScienceΒ shows that applying a small voltage...
Itβs allowed the aerospace, medical, automotive, manufacturing and many other industries to customize parts and prototypes in ways they never could before. It has drastic...
GraforceΒ is setting new standards in hydrogen production and carbon dioxide removal with its cross-cutting plasma technology (Plasmalysis). By harnessing the plasma catal...
In a world constantly seeking more efficient and sustainable industrial processes, a ground-breaking discovery has emerged from the laboratories of the Massachusetts Inst...
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...
Materials just atoms in thickness, known as two-dimensional (2D) materials, are set to revolutionize future technology, including in the electronics industry. However, co...
In hydrogen fuel cells, electrolyte membranes frequently undergo deformation and develop cracks during operation. A research team has recently introduced a fatigue-resist...
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...
Scientists are advancing the use of semiconductors to convert sunlight into renewable energy. In solar cells, semiconductors convert sunlight into electricity. When broug...
When water vapor meets metal, the resulting corrosion can lead to mechanical problems that harm a machineβs performance. Through a process called passivation, it also can...
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the worldβs first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms held togethe...
Mass spectrometers, devices that identify chemical substances, are widely used in applications like crime scene analysis, toxicology testing, and geological surveying. Bu...
Of the worldβs various weather phenomena, fog is perhaps the most mysterious, forming and dissipating near the ground with fluctuations in air temperature and humidity in...
In the constantly evolving realm of computing technology, a recent breakthrough at the Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with Purdue University, is illuminati...
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...
About half of an average American buildingβs energy consumption is spent on heating and cooling. Thatβs a lot of money spent, fossil fuel burned and strain on an aging en...
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 energy demands are escalating and climate change poses increasing challenges, the realm of power restoration is witnessing a paradigm shift, courtesy of t...
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...
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...
In a significant stride towards revolutionizing electrochemical research, a team at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology has introduced the ‘El...
Evaporation is happening all around us all the time, from the sweat cooling our bodies to the dew burning off in the morning sun. But scienceβs understanding of this ubiq...
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...
Youβre seeing the story on your screen right now thanks to tiny switches known as transistors. The microchips in computers contain billions of them, each one sending elec...
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