Materials Science News

Newswise - We live in a materials world. Everyday objects are made of materials designed to have specific properties and perform in certain ways.

The arapaima's outer scales are mineralized bio-material, while the inner ones are made of collagen fibers that form a flexible laminate, almost like a woven cloth.

Individual atoms can make or break electronic properties in one of the world's smallest known conductors-quantum nanowires.

On a wafer far thinner than hair, a Drexel researcher saw ruggedly beautiful landscapes.

One area of intensive research at the nanoscale is the creation of electrically conductive meshes made of metal nanowires.

The team of scientists from ETH Zurich and Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, succeeded for the first time in producing regularly ordered planar polymers that form a kind of "molecular carpet" on a nanometer scale.

Newswise - OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Feb. 13, 2012 -- Individual atoms can make or break electronic properties in one of the world's smallest known conductors-quantum nanowires.

In the five countries studied in the report Where are WEEE in Africa? , between 650,000 and 1,000,000 tons of domestic E-waste are generated each year, which need to be managed to protect human health and the environment in the region.

Newswise - Steven J. Zinkle, a senior materials researcher at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering .

Northwestern professors Tobin J. Marks, a world leader in materials chemistry, chemical catalysis and nanotechnology, and Samuel I. Stupp, renowned for his research in self-assembly and regenerative medicine, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering .

The P 800 will increase Paramount's additive manufacturing capacity to support the growing demand for direct part manufacturing and high temperature laser sintering composite parts.

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Some day, meshes made from nanowires could be used in devices such as video displays, LEDs, thin-film solar cells, and touch-screens. According to research performed so far, such meshes would be very electrically conductive, cost-effective, and easy to process.

Their work could lead to innovative electronics and solar applications. To succeed, they called upon plasmonics.

Figure 1: A scandium catalyst can catalyze the addition of a phenylsilane to anisole to give cleaner products, using fewer reagents, than achieved previously.

Newswise - Envirofit International, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Colorado State University have won a Federal Laboratory Consortium award for excellence in technology transfer for a clean-burning cookstove designed for the developing world.

S.K. Sundaram, Inamori Professor of Materials Science in Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering at Alfred University, is one of 166 researchers world-wide selected for senior membership in SPIE, an international society for optics and photonics.

Newswise - February 1, 2012 - Warrendale, PA - The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society has named Charles Ward, Ph.D., as the first editor of "Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation" , an Open Access journal scheduled to debut in March.

Imagine an ink that was particle-free, fast to make and could print through 100-nanometer nozzles.

Picture an orange. It's encased in a biodegradable shell - the peel's even somewhat edible, as marmalade fans can attest.