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.

Study of Multilayer Graphene Finds Energy Gaps

In the Aug. 8 advance online edition of the journal Nature Physics, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of…

Researchers successfully test new alternative to traditional semiconductors

An alternative to traditional microelectronics, so-called “spintronics” could store more data in less space, process data faster, and consume less power.In the…

Help from the Dark Side

Spectroscopic techniques are among the most important methods by which scientists can look inside materials. Now, using X-ray absorption spectroscopy,…

Push-Button Logic on the Nanoscale

Professor Zhong Lin (ZL) Wang, who leads the research, explains how the peculiar properties of zinc oxide have made this work possible. “Zinc oxide is unique…

Precise Measurement Technology for Complex Plastic Films Enables Resource Savings

All over Europe, the average demand for plastic packaging is increasing by 5.5 percent annually. As the second largest producer worldwide, Germany has profited…

Selenium makes more efficient solar cells

Research reported in the journal Applied Physics Letters, published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), describes how solar power could potentially be…

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