Metals and alloys news, November 2022

A novel embroidery technique that utiizes copper wires and polymer coatings offers a low-cost, scalable method for making wearable devices.

Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for directly printing electronic circuits onto curved and corrugated surfaces.

Dendrites can be prevented from travelling between electrodes in a solid-state lithium-metal battery by simply applying mechanical stress.

A new way to guide the self-assembly of a wide range of nanoscale structures, including parapets and aqueducts, uses simple polymers as starting materials.

Researchers have shown that nickel oxide can display responses to brief electrical pulses that are similar to learning.

Researchers have uncovered the dance that goes on between cerium, sulfates and water in a cerium-based flow cell battery.

A new heat treatment can transform the microscopic structure of 3D-printed metals, making them less prone to the deformation process known as creep.

Researchers have discovered a material that can act as a magnetic topological insulator, able to conduct electrons along a ‘quantum highway’.

Using microstratucture engineering, researchers have improved the properties of manganese bismuth, a rare-earth-free magnetic material.

Researchers used various optical techniques to investigate the unusual superconductivity of a recently discovered family of kagome metals.

By shifting the oxidation-reduction potential of a lithium-metal electrode, researchers have enhanced the energy density of lithium-metal batteries.

Scientists have managed to produce a material with the disordered structure of a plastic that conducts electricity more like a metal.

Researchers have shown that introducing intentional flaws to a metallic alloy can be used to make it stronger without affecting its flexibility.

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