Materials news, September 2013

Umicore introduces silver brazing alloy

Umicore’s technical materials business line BrazeTec has launched BlueBraze, a brazing alloy, with a 10% lower proportion of silver compared to similar pro

From plastic bags to high-tech materials

Topological insulators meet superconductivity

Nanoparticle vaccine offers better protection

First computer based on carbon nanotube technology

Graphene Commercialization & Applications 2013

Spring-like fibers to help repair damaged heart tissue

Ultra-stretchable OLED material

Domain walls as new information storage medium

Viscosity of nanoscale water affected by container

A 'crystal' of spin-swapping ultracold gas molecules

Nanocrystal catalyst transforms impure hydrogen

New model to speed the development of new nanomaterial alloys

Graphene photodetector integrated into computer chip

Nanodiamond-encrusted teeth

Jet printing nanostructures with a self-assembling material

‘Mechanical gears’ seen in nature for the first time

Toward a truly white organic LED

Webinar: Innovations in high precision thin film mechanical property characterization

Molecular pea-shooter

Nanodiamonds deliver drugs directly to brain tumors

Motorized microscopic matchsticks

Magnetic semiconductor holds promise for ‘spintronics’

Carbon saws

Laser spectroscopy to measure progress in nanotech design

Bismuth-carrying nanotubes show promise for CT scans

Webinar: Advances in integrated EDS and EBSD microanalysis

The next step for metal-insulator-metal diodes

Groundbreaking nanomanufacturing technique

Materials Today 2013 Cover Competition

Clay key to high-temperature supercapacitors

New evidence in search for charge stripes in superconductors

Breakthrough in sensing at the nanoscale

The true raw material footprint of nations

Inorganic submicron colloidosomes

Magnetic charge crystals imaged in artificial spin ice

Top 10 Materials News from August 2013