Materials Science CHANGE TOPIC

Materials Science news, December 2013

Top 5 news stories of 2013

We round up the most popular news stories of 2013.

Hear it from the authors: discover AudioSlides.

Researchers have found a catalyst that can quickly generate hydrogen from water using sunlight.

A Duke research team has developed a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints.

A team of scientists use a small amount of graphene oxide to improve carbon nanomaterials which promises to improve composite materials.

Clemson University investigated an application allowing the human body to regenerate its own tissue.

A solar panel design made with a new ceramic material points the way to be cheaper, more efficient, and requiring less manufacturing time.

A project where no fewer than twenty researchers from five universities worldwide have collaborated to prove that polymers can also be semimetals.

The materials created by scientists start as flat slabs, but they morph into shapes that can be controlled by patterns written into their layers.

Researchers of Technische Universität München have, for the first time, watched organic solar cells degrade in real time.

Rice’s research group test for terahertz peaks in batches of pure metallic nanotubes known as “armchairs”.

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have devised a novel way to realize electrical conductivity in metal-organic framework (MOF) materials.

Researchers have combined cutting-edge experimental techniques and computer simulations to find out how water dissolves crystalline structures

Researchers have added to a family of engineered, high-tech materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): the ability to conduct electricity.

A research team used a unique optical metamaterial with a refractive index of zero to generate “phase mismatch–free nonlinear light”.

Scientists at SISSA and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia are researching micro-robotics, a field that represents a challenge for the future.

A research team at Berkeley Lab has discovered a way to introduce a recoverable strain into bismuth ferrite of up to 14-percent on the nanoscale.

New solutions for utilising fiber-based material in the textile process attract global interest.

Should we sacrifice part of our cultural heritage in order to achieve greater knowledge of the universe and the origin of humankind?

Top 10 Materials News from November 2013: What's new in materials science?

News archive…

Connect with us
Most viewed…
News
 

A novel titanium alloy with tantalum and copper can produce surgical implants that kill 87% of the bacteria that cause staph infections.

News
 

New nanosheets for electronics, energy storage, and health and safety applications

Current research
 

News
 

New type of electrolyte extends the life of lithium metal batteries

What’s coming up…