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.

Coiling them up: Synthesizing organic molecules with a long helical structure

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) produced and extensively characterized novel organic molecules with a long helical structure. Unlike previous helical molecules, these longer compounds exhibit special interactions…

Research could dramatically lower cost of electron sources

Rice, Los Alamos make low-cost, scalable photocathodes from halide perovskites Rice University engineers have discovered technology that could slash the cost of semiconductor electron sources, key components in devices ranging…

How crystal defects can help convert waste heat into electricity

Beauty in imperfection Scientists clarify how crystal defects in Ni-based alloys give rise to high thermoelectric conversion efficiencies, advancing thermoelectric technology. If we are to prevent the impending environmental crisis,…

Scientists developed energy saving ceramic phosphors for high power LED systems

Materials scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), in collaboration with an international research team, have advanced the design of composite ceramic materials (Ce3+:YAG-Al2O3), i.e. solid-state light converters (phosphors) that…

Cell ‘bones’ mystery solved with supercomputers

XSEDE Stampede2 simulates polarized elongation of actin filaments Our cells are filled with ‘bones,’ in a sense. Thin, flexible protein strands called actin filaments help support and move around the…

New technique builds super-hard metals from nanoparticles

Metallurgists have all kinds of ways to make a chunk of metal harder. They can bend it, twist it, run it between two rollers or pound it with a hammer….

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