Materials Science News

Frederic Sansoz, a professor of engineering at the University of Vermont, works at the intersection of nanotechnology and materials science.

Among its many talents, silver is an antibiotic. Titanium dioxide is known to glom on to certain heavy metals and pollutants.

In 2012, more than 3 million people had stents inserted in their coronary arteries.

Umicore S.A Broekstraat 31 Rue du Marais B-1000 Brussels BELGIUM Tel.: +32-2-227 71 11 Fax: 32-2-227 79 00 E-post: info@umicore.com Umicore is a global materials technology and recycling group.

A team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST has developed in vivo silicon-based flexible large scale integrated circuits for bio-medical wireless communication.

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.

This shows: Top: In vivo flexible large scale integrated circuits ; Bottom: Schematic of roll-to-roll printing of flexible LSI on large area plastics.

Mechanical and electronic properties of diborides of transition 3d-5d metals from first principles: Toward search of novel ultra-incompressible and superhard materials Progress in Materials Science , Vol.

In 2012, more than 3 million people had stents inserted in their coronary arteries.

3-D bioprinting has tremendous promise for medical professionals, but it could also forever change areas such as cosmetic surgery and food engineering .

In Journal of Materials Science, Vol. 48, No. 13. , pp. 4592-4598, doi:10.1007/s10853-013-7190-3 A Ti5Ta1.8Nb alloy with the major phase as I Ti has been subjected to severe plastic deformation by means of cryo-rolling. Significant grain refinement has been observed.

This series of scanning electron microscope images illustrates the corrosion of zinc wire implanted in rats' arteries at 1.5 months, 3 months, 4.5 months and 6 months.

A Japanese research team from the National Institute for Materials Science and Tokyo Metropolitan University has demonstrated the importance of electrode design in terms of energy density.

Flask battery: A new kind of flow battery lights up a small LED. The battery stores energy in a sheet of lithium metal and materials dissolved in a liquid electrolyte.

Manufacturing /Quality Engineer x 3 Sheffield, South Yorkshire Salary Competitive + Benefits Our client is a world-leading provider of Seamless Rolled Rings, Closed Die Forgings, Open Die Forgings, Extruded Forgings and Specialty Metals to primarily the Aerospace market as well as a spectrum of related markets.

Nano skin: Georgia Tech researcher Wenzhuo Wu holds an array of transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic signals.

A high-performance solar photocatalyst based on titanium dioxide and other "metallic" oxides has been shown to greatly enhance visible light absorption, enabling more efficient use of the solar spectrum for energy applications.

"For solar and wind power to be used in a significant way, we need a battery made of economical materials that are easy to scale and still efficient," said Yi Cui, a Stanford associate professor of materials science and engineering and a member of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, a SLAC/Stanford joint institute.

Cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Roman Romanenko work near the space station's Pirs airlock module to set up equipment needed for installation of a space weather experiment.

The correlated electron "metal " SrRuO3 exhibits strong visible slight absorption.