The newly developed material conducts heat well along the layers, while at the same time providing thermal insulation vertically. Credit: MPI-P, Licence CC-BY-SA Styrofoam or…
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A redox flow battery that could be scaled up for grid-scale energy storage. Credit: Qilei Song, Imperial College London Imperial College London scientists have created…
Promotes healing and can subsequently be easily removed: a new kind of bandage coated with silicone and carbon nanofibers. Credit: Li Z et al. Nature…
(Click image for full view.) This illustration shows how a particle of ‘chameleon metal’ reacts to higher and higher temperatures by sequentially changing its surface…
MIT postdoc Jeonyoo Lee. Credit: Melanie Gonick, MIT A New Approach to Making Airplane Parts, Minus the Massive Infrastructure A modern airplane’s fuselage is made…
Lockheed Martin SR-72 hypersonic UAV concept. Credit: Lockheed Martin Vehicles moving at hypersonic speeds are bombarded with ice crystals and dust particles in the surrounding…
The bipartite sodalite type clathrate structure, which consists of truncated octahedral “host” cages that trap strontium “guest” atoms, was synthesized under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions…
Taken with a long-wave infrared camera, this image of the same researchers in Kats’ lab shows distinct color variations across areas that are warmer (faces…
Researchers Create Nanoscale Sensors to Better See How High Pressure Affects Materials Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the…
Researchers led by Professor MATSUYAMA Hideto and Professor YOSHIOKA Tomohisa at Kobe University’s Research Center for Membrane and Film Technology have succeeded in developing an…
An illustration shows the wetting behavior of carbon nanotubes, which both repel water and hold it in place. Credit: University of Pittsburgh Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)…
A low-temperature atomic force microscope with a single carbon atom at the tip allows quantitative measurement of forces between sample and tip. With two-dimensional silicon…
Materials science and engineering professor Christopher Evans, right, and graduate student Brian Jing have developed a solid battery electrolyte that is both self-healing and recyclable.…
FESEM images of Y2O3–MgO composite SPS ceramics sintered at 1100 (a), 1200 (b), 1250 (c) and 1300°C (d). Credit: FEFU press office Scientists from Far…
Combining silicon with a highly elastic polymer backing produces solar cells that have record-breaking stretchability and high efficiency. Credit: © 2019 KAUST; Heno Hwang Combining…
(From left) Josh Chawner and Dmitry Zmeev with the LEGO®. Credit: Lancaster University For the first time, LEGO® has been cooled to the lowest temperature…
Researchers used femtosecond lasers to analyze a perovskite solar cell. Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) in a collaboration with…
The image shows how protein fibers in the human hair cortex delaminate when the hair breaks, suggesting human hair fractures in a shear mode. Credit:…
This is an artistic representation of an x-ray interacting with layers containing different orbital character. Ionic character orbitals are colored green; while covalent character orbitals…
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed new thermoelectric materials, which could provide a low-cost option for converting heat energy into electricity. Materials…