In an effort to improve the scanning tunneling microscope, researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have pinpointed the problem that allows the microscope’s probe tip to crash into the sample it’s scanning and have devised a way to prevent it from happening.
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A collaboration of researchers from Purdue University and beyond is using a $3 million grant to take an up close look at flash sintering in a massive effort to broaden applications of the technique.
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Unprecedented nanoscale analysis, when glass becomes liquid, and other materials stories that may be of interest for March 23, 2016.
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Ivy league researchers now show that mollusks called chitons have an interesting feature to adapt to their life under the sea—hundreds of tiny ceramic eyes integrated in and scattered across their strong aragonite shells.
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Laser refrigerates liquids, ORNL watches fuel cell catalysts evolve, and other materials stories that may be of interest for November 24, 2015.
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Natural 2-D superconductors, NIST relieves the stress, and other materials stories that may be of interest for November 18, 2015.
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Piezoelectric washers, zinc oxide nanopyramids, and other materials stories that may be of interest for November 17, 2015.
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Scaling up 2-D sheets of molybdenum telluride, ferroelectricity in thin sheets of strontium titanate, and other materials stories that may be of interest for September 30, 2015.
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Kyocera builds floating solar plants, Corning collaborates for OLEDs, GE to see capital assets, and more ceramics and glass business news of the week for April 24, 2015.
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MIT researchers recently discovered that the shells of blue-rayed limpets—a fingernail-sized mollusk—contain unique biological photonic structures that are the first known to be made from inorganic, mineralized structures.
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