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.

Latest 'green' packing material? Mushrooms

A new packing material that grows itself is now appearing in shipped products across the country. The composite of inedible agricultural waste and mushroom…

Plasma technology for solvent-free utility wood

In order to raise the competitiveness of wood compared to other materials, it is necessary to develop a cost-efficient method of wood protection which is free…

A trick of the light

All known natural materials have a positive refractive index so that light that crosses from one medium to another gets slightly bent in the direction of…

Graphene organic photovoltaics, or, will joggers' t-shirts someday power their cell phones?

A University of Southern California team has produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that the researchers say have great potential for a new breed of…

Graphene oxide gets green

“We can make you and we can break you.” If Rice University scientists wrote country songs, their ode to graphene oxide would start something like that. But…

Princeton scientists find unusual electrons that go with the flow

The Princeton work represents the first time such behavior of electrons has been tracked and recorded, and hints at the possibilities of speeding up integrated…

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