Composites news

Announcing the launch of Best Paper Prizes on Elseviers Leading Polymer Journals

Metallic glass-based materials in wearable energy storage devices

Wearable all-solid-state supercapacitors with excellent performance

Boron takes the strain out of Li-ion battery electrodes

Ni-rich cathodes used in EV Li-ion batteries show improved performance stability when doped with boron

Making two-dimensional metals the easy way

easy way to make large, freestanding, thin sheets of metallic materials could open up novel applications in catalysis, flexible electronics, soft robotics

Knitted devices power up wearable electronics

3D supercapacitors knitted from cotton or nylon yarn coated with a novel conductive material could power smart textiles

Professor’s work gave her a window into gender inequity, so she took action

Prof. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser is using an Agents of Change grant to empower women in academia

Optical manipulation not just a phase for 2D materials

When placed on top of passive silicon waveguides, 2D materials can change the phase of light as strongly as existing silicon phase modulators.

New approach illuminates damage in polymer composites

Researchers have used small molecules that fluoresce after the impact of mechanical force to detect damage in fiber-reinforced polymers.

Elsevier - The Researcher Journey Through a Gender Lens

Template offers control over self-assembled composites

well-known organic synthesis growth technique is applied to inorganic eutectic composites to control their physical structure

Introducing the three new editors of Nuclear Materials & Energy

Turn and face the strange

Strange metals and quantum entanglement

Templates add depth to layered composites

Researchers have shown how a simple layered material transforms into a composite material with a 3D structure when it freezes around a template.

New composite material can defeat toxic nerve agents

A novel composite material based on a metal-organic framework that can destroy toxic nerve agents has been integrated with textile fibers.

New thermal process creates plastic-like material from silk

A new method for the solid-state thermal processing of silk allows the biopolymer to be molded directly into bulk parts with tunable properties.

Sand and soot for next generation quantum computers

Hybrid silicon-organic for next-generation quantum computers, energy conversion

Carbon nanotube composites cut CO2 emissions

CNTs produced from CO2 using low-energy chemical processes drastically reduce emissions associated with construction materials

New dealloying method produces sponge-like metal materials

Scientists have developed a new approach for making metal-metal composites and porous metals with a ‘bicontinuous’ structure in thin films.