Materials Science News

Trustee professor of materials science and engineering and Director of Penn's Nano/Bio Interface Center Dawn Bonnell was appointed Vice Provost for Research today.

A magnetic phenomenon newly discovered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers could lead to much faster, denser and more energy-efficient chips for memory and computation.

The novel material developed by the UNIST research team has exceptionally high CO2 adsorption capacity which could pave the way to save the Earth from CO2 pollution.

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Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World , by Mark Miodownik, Viking, RRPA 18, 272 pages No science book I have read has started with such a graphic description of violence against the author.

Ohio State University's new Center for Electron Microscopy aims to prove it's not just the tools, but how you use them.

Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are the most efficient and environmentally friendly light bulbs on the market.

Materials Science and Engineering: A , Vol. 454-455 , pp. 203-210, doi:10.1016/j.msea.2006.11.011 This paper presents some basic aspects of electromagnetic radiation emission during plastic deformation and crack propagation in Cu-Zn alloys.

Using star-shaped block co-polymer structures as tiny reaction vessels, researchers have developed an improved technique for producing nanocrystals with consistent sizes, compositions and architectures - including metallic, ferroelectric, magnetic, semiconductor and luminescent nanocrystals.

Metal-oxide nanofiber based chemiresistive gas sensors offer greater usability for portable real-time breath tests that can be available on smart phones or tablet PCs in the near future Clockwise from left to right: left upper shows a magnified SEM image of a broken thin-wall assembled SnO2 fiber.

Three young Singaporeans who went online to raise US$100,000 so they could start making the world's cheapest 3-D printer are suddenly thinking bigger.

The Michigan Molecular Institute's Turner Alfrey Visiting Professorship will set the stage for a week's worth of expert instruction in the field of materials science later this month.

Living Proof expanded its science team with the appointment of Dr. Thomas H. Jozefiak as vice president, discovery.

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The Las Cruces Academy and El Paso homeschoolers co-hosted a demonstration of materials science for space applications on May 20.

Open University and University of Manchester researchers wrote in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science that they found proof that ancient Egyptians used meteorites to make accessories.

Researchers at MIT have developed a new way of controlling the motion of magnetic domains - the key technology in magnetic memory systems, such as a computer's hard disk.

Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, announced researchers at the campus have taken the initial steps towards printed organic optoelectronics, placing the UAE firmly on the global map of this promising sector.

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There has been great interest in recent years in using tiny particles called quantum dots to produce low-cost, easily manufactured, stable photovoltaic cells.