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The materials that will be game-changers in solar technology, medical applications, defense technologies and nanotechnology.
CHARM3D Creates Free-standing 3D Structures, Sans Supports
A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a cutting-edge technique called…
Scientists Create Energy-Efficient Microelectronic Device
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory achieved a breakthrough with a new…
New Molecular Sponge May Revolutionize Electronics
Porous covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of highly ordered materials composed of organic molecules…
What Do You Get When You Heat Gallium Nitride and Magnesium?
Researchers at Nagoya University found that a simple thermal reaction of gallium nitride (GaN) with metallic…
Copper Can be Just as Strong as Steel
Copper is typically more pliable than steel. However, MIT researchers discovered that when metal is struck by an…
Graphene Gets Scalability
Graphene’s unique properties include ultra-high electrical conductivity and tensile strength. The downside is that…
MIT Makes Steel with Electricity
Boston Metal, an MIT spinout, is ready to commercialize a new steelmaking method that can potentially clean up…
Are There Rare Earth Elements in Coal Mines?
Research at the University of Utah documented elevated concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs) in active mines…
What Fire Ants Can Teach Us
A few years ago I stood on an amazingly picturesque hill in Costa Rica overlooking Lake Arenal. I closed my eyes,…
3D Printing 1,000x Smaller Than a Grain of Sand
Researchers in Sweden have 3D printed silica glass micro-optics on the tips of optic fibers that are as tiny as the…