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Posted on: 7/6/2009 12:00:00 AM... Vasek Vitek was exploring largely uncharted territory as he toiled on atomistic simulation of dislocations and stacking faults in the wee hours of the morning at Oxford University in the late 1960s.

A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers has built upon his work to potentially improve a means of harvesting energy from the sun.

ORNL will work with A123Systems on better processing techniques for materials associated with advanced lithium-ion batteries, according to information released today by the Dept.

The strain state of 1 and 2.5 nm thick GaN insertions in GaN/AlN nanocolumn heterostructures has been studied by means of a combination of high resolution transmission electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and theoretical modeling.

With June comes summer, and with summer comes beach reading. This month, in keeping with our Electronic Materials theme, JOM asks: Which materials-related titles would you be most likely to take with you on a summer vacation? The poll is conducted via the JOM Reader Zone of the TMS Discussion Board .

Oak Ridge National Laboratory will work with A123Systems on better processing techniques for materials associated with advanced lithium-ion batteries, according to information released today by the Department of Energy.

Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades.

IST is the educational face of the country's space agency, SUPARCO 4.A group of teachers and Ph.D. students visited the lab on 26 November 2008.

Sudipta Seal, materials scientist and engineer at the University of Central Florida, holds a bottle containing billions of ultrasmall, engineered nanoceria.

Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades.

Magnetic heterostructures with carbon nanotubes having multiple functionalities are fascinating materials which can be manipulated by means of an external magnetic field.

The fabrication of nanowires with well-controlled lengths and diameters is the basis of the application of one-dimensional nanostructures in more sophisticated electronic and biomolecular device systems.

A plasma sputtering decoration route to producing thickness-tunable ZnO/ TiO2 core/shell nanorod arrays Meili Wang et al 2009 Nanotechnology 20 285311 doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/28/285311 Meili Wang 1 , Changgang Huang 1,2 , Yongge Cao 1,4 , Qingjiang Yu 3 , Wang Guo 1 , Quanlin Liu 2 , Jingkui Liang 1 and Maochun Hong 1 1 Key Laboratory of ...

Bioplastics software in development at Iowa State to be tested at international plastics show Jun.

Semiconductor single-crystalline polar NiO nanosheets with well-defined hexagonal holes have been investigated for application in dye adsorption and combustion processes.

DENTON , Texas -- Certain explosive devices can cut through the armor used by the U.S. military, leaving soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan vulnerable to attacks.

Today's transistors and light emitting diodes are based on silicon and gallium arsenide semiconductors, which have fixed electronic and optical properties.

We've all heard how important it is to develop future scientists in our schools.

The Garden of Honor, dedicated today at UNT's Discovery Park, is similar to the Trans-Siberian Railroad for one engineer.

Marlborough, Mass.-based Xtalic has licensed MIT's technology on a worldwide level and thinks it has a commercially viable product.