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.

Plasmonics: From metallic foils to cancer treatment

The authors provide an extensive overview of the properties of plasmons in nanomaterials with emphasis on pioneering work of Ruthemann and Lang on electron…

Polymer Membranes with Molecular-sized Channels That Assemble Themselves

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have…

Fabrication of Mosaic Nanofilters for Molecular Transport and Separation of Macromolecules

A team led by Dr. Sherif El-Safty, Exploratory Materials Research Laboratory for Energy and Environment, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS;…

Anything goes in oxides

Researchers in Japan have demonstrated why the material Sr2IrO4—a transition metal oxide—that was expected to be an electrical conductor is actually an…

Packing Electrons in a Nano Box: Control of Many-Body Correlation by Quantum Confinement

A team headed by Dr. Takashi Kuroda, Senior Researcher, and Dr. Marco Abbarchi, Researcher, of the Quantum Dot Research Center (Managing Director: Kazuaki…

World's First Diamond Nanoelectromechanical Switch Toward New Functionality of Diamonds and …

Researchers at NIMS have succeeded in the batch fabrication of suspended structures (cantilevers and bridges) of single crystal diamond for nano/micro…

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