Tag: Advanced Materials
New neutron detector can fit in your pocket
Researchers demonstrate first stable semiconductor neutron detector
Homeland Security might soon have a new tool to add to its arsenal.
Researchers at Northwestern University and Argonne...
New Nordson MARCH Plasma Treatment System for Manufacturing of Extended Catheters...
PROGENY™ system prevents shape deformation from bending or coiling during plasma treatment
Nordson MARCH, a division of Nordson Corporation (NASDAQ: NDSN), a global leader in...
Physicists shed X-ray light on melting polymers
Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Lomonosov Moscow State University have combined thermal analysis and X-ray scattering—two techniques for...
Modified quantum dots capture more energy from light
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have synthesized magnetically-doped quantum dots that capture the kinetic energy of electrons created by ultraviolet light before it’s wasted...
Ford and MacDonald’s collaborate to convert coffee bean skin into car...
Ford Motor Company and McDonald’s USA will soon be giving vehicles a caffeine boost by using part of a familiar staple in the morning...
Diamonds in your devices: powering the next generation of energy storage
Using conductive nanodiamond as electrode material in a water-based cell significantly increases its energy storage capacity, scientists find supercapacitors, which have begun to stand...
New ‘hyper glue’ formula developed
With many of the products we use every day held together by adhesives, researchers from UBC’s Okanagan campus and the University of Victoria hope...
This thermoplastic is learning a new trick: Walking
https://media.eurekalert.org/multimedia_prod/pub/media/218087_web.mp4
This video illustrates the role of the association process in devising a locomotive robot that ''learns'' to walk by irradiation. The LCN-based robot is...
3D Printed Resistors From Electrically Conductive Filament
In a paper entitled “Characterization of resistors created by fused filament fabrication using electrically-conductive filament,” a pair of researchers 3D prints resistors using electrically...
Next-Generation Composites May Monitor Their Own Structural Health
Carbon fiber composites—lightweight and strong—are great structural materials for automobiles, aircraft and other transportation vehicles. They consist of a polymer matrix, such as epoxy,...
