Computational simulations predict new class of carbides that could disrupt industries from machinery to aerospace Materials scientists at Duke University and UC San Diego have discovered a n... Read more
Algorithm take months, not years, to find material for improved energy conversion n even the most fuel-efficient cars, about 60 percent of the total energy of gasoline is lost through heat i... Read more
A team including several Carnegie scientists has developed a form of ultrastrong, lightweight carbon that is also elastic and electrically conductive. A material with such a unique combinati... Read more
A team led by Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, has discovered a new phase-transition optical material and demonstrated novel devices that dynamical... Read more
Allowing electrons to flow at speeds near to light speed with a practically non-existent energy consumption level In the month of April 2014, a project in which Pedro L. Galindo, University... Read more
Fraunhofer scientists are developing insulation foam made from wood that could re- place petrochemical plastics in the long term. Insulation materials of tomorrow must be both efficient and... Read more
With supercomputers and the equations of quantum mechanics, scientists are designing new materials atom by atom, before ever running an experiment In 1878 Thomas Edison set out to reinvent e... Read more
Could Aid in the Design of Pressure Sensors and Artificial Muscles If you squeeze a normal object in all directions, it shrinks in all directions. But a few strange materials will actually g... Read more
Valuable insights from the imitation of the skeleton of natural sea sponges Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P)... Read more
A new material has been patented, using doped carbon, allowing fuels to be produced while, at the same time, reducing CO2 emissions At present, power stations run using renewable energies (w... Read more