Corning’s innovators have developed a new ceramic substrate, Flora, with an “optimized material microstructure” that is designed to decrease cold-start automobile emissions.
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Thanks to a multi-million-dollar infusion of funding from the National Science Foundation, materials and materials research centers are having one of their best months ever.
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Researchers at Bristol University in the United Kingdom have devised an ultrasonic nonlinear imaging technique to detect defects in materials, even before faults form.
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Whether you’re unphotogenic, camera-shy, or just prefer to stay “off the grid,” a new line of glass-nanosphere-coated reflective clothing might someday be your saving grace.
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With a highly technical wave of a wand, MIT researchers have, for the first time, fabricated multifunctional, multimaterial fibers that have a completely different composition than their starting materials.
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Researchers at Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a telescopic contact lens and wink-controlled smart glasses that could bring better, stronger sight to the visually impaired.
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Developing stronger steel, world’s strongest material, rare earth assessment, and other materials stories that may be of interest for February 25, 2015.
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Making molybdenum disulfide, shrimp shell solar cells, Mars’ minerals, and other materials stories that may be of interest for February 24, 2015.
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Emerging Objects’ Cool Brick combines age-old cooling system with 21st century technology to produce a 3-D printed brick that can cool a room with water.
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Researchers at the Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre (QMNC) at Griffith University (Australia) have shown that silicon carbide’s “superiority” in not-so-superior conditions make the compound a promising substitute for silicon semiconductors in devices with mechanical and electrical sensors.
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