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9:38am, 6th May, 2019

Review of preparation and structures of silicon nanowire/germanium quantum dot composite materials

(World Scientific) In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, a team of researchers from Yunnan University, China, have reviewed the recent research on preparation methods and structures of Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) and Germanium qu...

4D-printed materials can be stiff as wood or soft as sponge

6:15am, 22nd March, 2019

Humans

4D-printed materials can be stiff as wood or soft as sponge

(Rutgers University) Imagine smart materials that can morph from being stiff as wood to as soft as a sponge - and also change shape. Rutgers University-New Brunswick engineers have created flexible, lightweight materials with 4D printing that could l...

Materials could delay frost up to 300 times longer than existing anti-icing coatings

1:05pm, 18th March, 2019

Physics

Materials could delay frost up to 300 times longer than existing anti-icing coatings

(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering describe for the first time several unique properties of materials known as phase-switching liquids, or PSLs, that hold promise as next-...

UTA engineer earns NSF CAREER grant to develop bioinspired, shape-morphing 3D materials

7:38pm, 15th February, 2019

Physics

UTA engineer earns NSF CAREER grant to develop bioinspired, shape-morphing 3D materials

(University of Texas at Arlington) Kyungsuk Yum, an assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department has been awarded a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation Early Career Development, or CAREER, Program grant to desig...

NSF Award funds sensor research at Kent State's new Advanced Materials Institute

6:20pm, 11th February, 2019

Tech

NSF Award funds sensor research at Kent State's new Advanced Materials Institute

(Kent State University) Thanks to a rare Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Kent State University researchers in the new Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute wil...

Theories describe dynamically disordered solid materials

11:27am, 11th February, 2019

Physics

Theories describe dynamically disordered solid materials

(Linköping University) Theoretical physicists at Linköping University have developed a computational method to calculate the transition from one phase to another in dynamically disordered solid materials. This is a class of materials that can be used...

New materials for high-voltage supercapacitors

11:15am, 7th February, 2019

Physics

New materials for high-voltage supercapacitors

(Tohoku University) A research team led by Tohoku University in Japan has developed new materials for supercapacitors with higher voltage and better stability than other materials. Their research was recently published in the journal Energy and Envir...

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Review of preparation and structures of silicon nanowire/germanium quantum dot composite materials

4D-printed materials can be stiff as wood or soft as sponge

Materials could delay frost up to 300 times longer than existing anti-icing coatings

UTA engineer earns NSF CAREER grant to develop bioinspired, shape-morphing 3D materials

NSF Award funds sensor research at Kent State's new Advanced Materials Institute

Theories describe dynamically disordered solid materials

New materials for high-voltage supercapacitors

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