Van der Waals Open Frameworks: A New Era in Porous Material
Van der Waals forces, once deemed too weak for structural integrity, have been shown to create stable, highly porous frameworks with exceptional thermal resilience...
Polymers with Flawed Fillers Boost Heat Transfer in Plastics
In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices – ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent at dissipating heat...
Ultrathin non-stick coating revolutionizes injection molding
The new UltraPLAS coating developed by Fraunhofer researchers has proven to be a ground-breaking solution to the challenges of primary forming processes. This advanced...
Rice lab finds better way to handle hard-to-recycle material
The process transforms glass fiber-reinforced plastic into silicon carbide
A better way to handle hard-to-recycle material is glass fiber-reinforced plastic (GFRP), a strong and durable...
Researchers capture strange behavior of laser-excited gold
The research could lead to a better understanding of how metals behave under extreme conditions, which will aid in developing more resilient materials.
New research...
Quantum phenomena as classical or quantum computing transistors
NEW CLASS OF 2D MATERIAL DISPLAYS STABLE CHARGE DENSITY WAVE AT ROOM TEMPERATURE
These exotic quantum phenomena could be helpful as classical or quantum computing...
Oobleck-like Fluids Contributes to Smart Material Design
Oobleck-like Fluids Contributes to Smart Material Design: If you mix cornstarch and water in the right proportions, you get something that seems not-quite-liquid but...
Gold Nanoparticles Grow from Buckyball Seeds
Rice lab discovers commonly used nanoparticles are cousins of original buckyballs
Gold Nanoparticles Grow from Buckyball Seeds: Rice University chemists have discovered that tiny gold...
Novel Recycling Process Gives Old Plastics New Life
Using greener catalysts, Northwestern researchers break down and rebuild polyurethane to make new foam
Novel Recycling Process Gives Old Plastics New Life: Polyurethane plastics are...
New Quantum Material puts Electrons in a Tangle
A team from Aalto University and the University of Jyväskylä have created an artificial quantum magnet featuring a quasiparticle made of entangled electrons, the...
