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Fundamental breakthrough in the future of designing materials

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

Professor John Boland, Principal Investigator in AMBER and Trinity's School of Chemistry, researcher Dr. Xiaopu Zhang, with Professors Adrian Sutton and David S...

Engineering on a blue streak

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

Abhishek Shete, graduate research assistant in materials science and engineering, and Christopher Kloxin, assistant professor in materials science and engineeri...

ARCTEC receives contract for Air Force radar sites in Alaska

Jul 31, 2017 (UPI)

The modification invokes an option to extend services for another 12 months on the network of radars covering Alaskan airspace and the Arctic circle. Most of th...

UBC research unearths Canadian sapphires fit for a queen

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

The so-called Beluga sapphires were discovered near Kimmirut, Baffin Island, Nunavut by brothers Nowdluk and Seemeega Aqpik in 2002. The location is Canada's on...

Scientists discover new magnet with nearly massless charge carriers

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

For example, the power consumption and heat production in these devices is creating significant problems for device design. Therefore, novel quantum materials a...

Reality check for 'wonder material'

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

Topological insulators are materials that are insulating in the bulk but allow charge to flow across the surface. These conducting states at the surface origina...

Smart surface enables advanced manipulation of droplets

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

Such a "smart surface" has now been developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia. Inexpensive, scalable and powered by just a conventional ele...

A new synthesis route for alternative catalysts of noble metals

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

As inexpensive alternatives, organic-based catalysts and carbonaceous catalysts were explored, but were ultimately found to be impractical. This was because org...

Synthetic materials systems that can count and sense their size

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

The findings are based on research into biomimetic synthetic materials by Anna C. Balazs, Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, and pos...

Making polymer chemistry 'click'

Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)

The researchers' reaction technique, dubbed SuFEx for sulfur(VI) fluoride exchange, combined with a newly identified class of catalysts that speed up the reacti...

Multitasking monolayers

Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)

That is the result of a new process that naturally produces patterned monolayers that can act as a base for creating a wide variety of novel materials with dual...

Writing with the electron beam: Now in silver

Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)

Yet, the noble metal silver promises especially interesting potential applications in nano-optics in information technology. For the first time a team from the ...

A new material emits white light when exposed to electricity

Jul 25, 2017 (SPX)

Stimuli-responsive materials alter their own properties in response to external stimuli, such as photo-irradiation, heat, pressure and electricity. This feature...

Making telescopes that curve and twist

Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)

The research, "Computational Design of Telescoping Structures," led by Carnegie Mellon Professors Stelian Coros and Keenan Crane and PhD student Christopher Yu,...

Using water displacement as the 3-D shape sensor for complex objects

Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)

This new approach to 3D shape acquisition is based on the well-known fluid displacement discovery by Archimedes and turns modeling surface reconstruction into a...

Future materials are becoming 'topological'

Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)

The spin is an intrinsic property of electrons and, unlike its electronic charge, the spin can assume two opposing values: 'up' and 'down'. Therefore, the advan...

Scientists announce the quest for high-index materials

Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)

As a consequence, optical antennas are, by necessity, nanosized devices. Optical nanoantennas, which can focus, direct, and effectively transmit light, have a w...

Indented cement shows unique properties

Jul 24, 2017 (SPX)

Tobermorite is a naturally occurring crystalline analog to the calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H) that makes up cement, which in turn binds concrete, the world's ...

Cleanup Time: Russia Launches Satellite to Remove Space Junk from Orbit

Jul 21, 2017 (Sputnik)

When asked about the functions the new satellite, dubbed Mayak, and about the hopes and expectations regarding its launch and deployment, Nikita Yershov said th...

Semiliquid chains pulled out of a sea of microparticles

Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)

An electrode slowly rises from the surface of a liquid, pulling out individual spherical particles that, just a moment before, were chaotically dispersed in a c...