Tiny Optical Gyroscope Smaller Than a Grain of Rice
You may not realize it, but gyroscopes can be found in pretty much any modern electronic gadget. With applications ranging from cell phones to...
Thermoplastic composites recycling process
The ThermoPlastic composites Application Center (TPAC, Enschede, the Netherlands) and the Thermoplastic Research Centre (TPRC, Enschede, the Netherlands) have developed a new recycling process...
Smart surfaces repel everything but targeted beneficial exceptions
Researchers at McMaster University have solved a vexing problem by engineering surface coatings that can repel everything, such as bacteria, viruses, and living cells,...
Breakthrough in self-healing materials
The cost of making plastics, paints, coatings for cell phone screens and other materials that heal themselves like skin could be dramatically reduced thanks...
Researchers harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
Since the 2003 discovery of the single-atom-thick carbon material known as graphene, there has been significant interest in other types of 2-D materials as...
Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air
A material designed by MIT chemical engineers can react with carbon dioxide from the air, to grow, strengthen, and even repair itself. The polymer,...
Catalysts more efficient and environmentally friendly
By studying materials down to the atomic level, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have found a way to make catalysts more efficient and...
Thin films for more efficient solar cells
The efficiency of solar cells can be increased by thin-film contacts developed by researchers at KAUST.
Improving the performance of solar cells requires scrutinizing every...
Lockheed Martin Develops 3D Printing
Today, 3-D printing generates parts used in ships, planes, vehicles, and spacecraft, but it also requires a lot of babysitting. High-value and intricate parts...
ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene implant
For the first time ever, a research team from the small innovative enterprise Biomimetix, implementing several NUST MISIS developments, has successfully implanted a biomimetic...
