Tag: Advanced Materials
Graphene oxide ‘smart’ material with potential biomedical, environmental uses
Brown University researchers have shown a way to use graphene oxide (GO) to add some backbone to hydrogel materials made from alginate, a natural...
Alternative for petroleum polycarbonate
The Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) has developed a bio-polycarbonate which has been monopolized by Japan, and has opened up the possibility...
New synthesis method yields degradable polymers
Materials could be useful for delivering drugs or imaging agents in the body; may offer alternative to some industrial plastics.
MIT chemists have devised a...
Study unlocks full potential of graphene
New research reveals why the “supermaterial” graphene has not transformed electronics as promised, and shows how to double its performance and finally harness its...
The force of the vacuum
Scientists from the Theory Department of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) at the Center for Free-Electron Laser...
‘Magnetic topological insulator’ makes its own magnetic field
A team of U.S. and Korean physicists has found the first evidence of a two-dimensional material that can become a magnetic topological insulator even...
Bending light around tight corners
Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a device that can direct photons of light around sharp corners with virtually no losses due to backscattering,...
“Lazarus Superconductivity” Observed in uranium ditelluride
Researchers from the University of Maryland, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (National MagLab) and the...
Topological behavior of electrons in 3-D magnetic material
An international team of researchers led by scientists at Princeton University has found that a magnetic material at room temperature enables electrons to behave...
Organic material for lithium battery anode
At JST Strategic Basic Research Programs, the research group led by associate professor Yuya Oaki and graduate student (at the time) Hiromichi Numazawa of...
