Materials Science News

Member Views of Materials News Perspectives on the Most Significant Established Materials Technology Stories of 2009 Posted on: 12/8/2009 12:00:00 AM... - Tis the season when various media outlets are highlighting what they believe are the top news stories of 2009.

Dip an ordinary piece of paper into ink infused with carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires, and it turns into a battery or supercapacitor.

Multiwall carbon nanotubes are promising candidates for yielding next generation electrical and electronic devices such as interconnects and tips for conductive force microscopy.

Chemical sensors based on semiconducting metal oxide nanocrystals are of academic and practical significance in industrial processing and environment-related applications.

THIS MONTH'S THEME: Mechanical Properties Open Access: Semi-solid Induction Forging of Metallic Glass Matrix Composites By: Douglas C. Hofmann, Henry Kozachkov, Hesham E. Khalifa, Joseph P. Schramm, Marios D. Demetriou, Kenneth S. Vecchio, and William L. Johnson Committee Sponsors: Structural Transitions and Local Deformation Processes at and Near ...

Quantum Dot Research Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Sakura 3-13, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0003, Japan Abstract.

As engineers attempt to integrate electronics into things like clothing and medical devices, they're increasingly running up against the material properties of the substances we use to make the hardware.

"The interest that we've received in the Fiji has been overwhelming," said Ganesh Sundaram, Vice President of Technology at Cambridge NanoTech.

Anthony Evans pioneered the use of brittle materials in jet engines, space-shuttle tiles, silicon chips and vehicle armour.

The breadth and depth of information is exhaustive: 91,000 online documents, 165,000 substances and materials systems, 3,000 properties and more than one million literature references.

West Virginia University materials scientist Xingbo Liu is helping to improve the use of coal and winning awards in the process.

It is possible to maximize the content of acicular ferrite by increasing the intragranular nucleation sites while maintaining a critical weld metal cooling rate and the steel hardenability.

Gadget makers often rely on piezoelectricity - the ability that some solids have to produce voltage when pressure is applied to them - to power tiny embedded systems, such as a BlackBerry Storm 2's touch screen or a car's airbag sensor .

Main Category: IT / Internet / E-mail Also Included In: MRI / PET / Ultrasound Article Date: 13 Nov 2009 Research into designing and building unique 'metamaterials' has received a A 4.9 million funding boost from The Leverhulme Trust.

The purpose of this talk is to demonstrate the utility of fractography in failure analysis investigations.A CPVCA fire sprinkler pipe sections were subjected to controlled loading conditions typifying hydrostatic burst, impact loading, and environmental stress cracking to induce cracks.A Hydrostatic burst is an overload failure mode , which may ...

Hybrid solar cells have been constructed by using nanocrystalline titania and hole-transporting polymers.

Templeton Middle School eighth-graders Aaron Sonnemann and Bailee Bobert and Hamilton High School freshman Alan Mamerow showcased their knowledge of the design and engineering process Oct.

Could the six-hour runtime of a netbook go to 36 hours in the future? It sounds possible based on recent ionic battery projects .

Julich / Oak Ridge , 5 November 2009 - A unique large-scale research device from Julich went into operation in the USA yesterday.

A spinoff from Arizona State University says it can develop a metal-air battery that dramatically outperforms the best lithium-ion batteries on the market, and now it has the funding it needs to prove it.