Tag: Advanced Materials
Harvard Uses Advanced Materials to Create Advanced Integrated Chip
Device could advance quantum computing and quantum networks
Harvard Uses Advanced Materials to Create Advanced Integrated Chip: Optical photons are ideal carriers of quantum information....
Recycling Previously Unrecyclable Polyvinyl Chloride
by University of Michigan
Recycling Previously Unrecyclable Polyvinyl Chloride: PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the...
New Way to Print Microchip Patterns on Curvy Surfaces
by National Institute of Standards and Technology
New Way to Print Microchip Patterns on Curvy Surfaces: NIST scientist Gary Zabow had never intended to use candy...
The Future of Welding and Lightweight Vehicles
The Future of Welding and Lightweight Vehicles: Making vehicle structures out of a combination of metals and plastics could make them dramatically lighter, stronger,...
3D Printing Method to Fabricate Metal–Plastic Composites
Novel 3D Printing Method to Fabricate Complex Metal–Plastic Composite Structures: Three-dimensional (3D) metal–plastic composite structures have widespread potential applicability in smart electronics, micro/nanosensing, internet-of-things...
Probing Adhesion of ‘Tricky’ Materials at the Microscale
Probing Adhesion of ‘Tricky’ Materials at the Microscale: Scientists have been exploring and exploiting adhesion for centuries. Our knowledge of how to join surfaces...
How “2D” Materials Expand
Adam Zewe | MIT News Office
A new technique that accurately measures how atom-thin materials expand when heated could help engineers develop faster, more powerful electronic devices.
How...
Achieving High Thermal Conductivity in Plant Fiber Materials
Achieving High Thermal Conductivity in Plant Fiber Materials: Researchers at the University of Tokyo and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed...
Easier and Safer to use Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Nanocomposite Materials
by Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Easier and Safer to use Carbon Nanotubes in Polymer Nanocomposite Materials: A research team from Skoltech, Aalto University, and...
Valuable Raw Materials from ‘red mud’
Valuable Raw Materials from 'red mud': Waste slags from the metallurgy industries often contain valuable materials, but in very small concentrations. This means that...
