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.

Allure of pineapple

Lanky models strutting in cotton, linen and silk, making statement for beautiful creations – why not make statement with a ‘pineapple’? Alluring dresses from…

Jekyll and Hyde material

A team of researchers in Japan has developed a porous material, decorated with a highly reactive ‘species’ of molecules that can be activated remotely using a…

Stiff DuPont™ SentryGlas® interlayers make train carriage balustrades both lightweight and secure

Thanks to the use of strong and stiff DuPont™ SentryGlas® interlayers, the glazing – which reaches up to the carriage’s ceiling – can be produced at a very low…

Notre Dame and Wyoming scientists genetically engineer silkworms to produce artificial spider silk

“This research represents a significant breakthrough in the development of superior silk fibers for both medical and non-medical applications,” said Malcolm J….

Finding a buckyball in photovoltaic cell

One approach uses a light-absorbing polymer along with a derivative of a sixty-carbon fullerene molecule, commonly known as a buckyball. For maximum…

Wheel in a corset

Not to mention the safety risk to the occupants – because the breakdown was caused by the extremely light plastic wheels so highly praised by the car salesman….

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