Materials Sciences

Materials management deals with the research, development, manufacturing and processing of raw and industrial materials. Key aspects here are biological and medical issues, which play an increasingly important role in this field.

innovations-report offers in-depth articles related to the development and application of materials and the structure and properties of new materials.

Making cleaner, greener plastics from waste fish parts

Polyurethanes, a type of plastic, are nearly everywhere — in shoes, clothes, refrigerators and construction materials. But these highly versatile materials can have a major downside. Derived from crude oil,…

Less than a nanometer thick, stronger and more versatile than steel

Scientists create stable nanosheets containing boron and hydrogen atoms with potential applications in nanoelectronics and quantum information technology. What’s thinner than thin? One answer is two-dimensional materials — exotic materials…

A Skoltech method helps model the behavior of 2D materials under pressure

Scientists from the Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology (CEST) have developed a method for modeling the behavior of 2D materials under pressure. The research will help create pressure…

Tires turned into graphene that makes stronger concrete

Rice University lab’s optimized flash process could reduce carbon emissions. This could be where the rubber truly hits the road. Rice University scientists have optimized a process to convert waste…

Renewable energy, new perspectives for photovoltaic cells

In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists from the Politecnico di Milano and IFN-CNR reveal a critical mechanism for organic photovoltaic cell efficiency. In the future, photovoltaic cells could…

Scientists uncover a process that stands in the way of making quantum dots brighter

The results have important implications for today’s TV and display screens and for future technologies where light takes the place of electrons and fluids. Bright semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum…

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