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.

Cell phones could double as night vision devices

A University of Florida engineering researcher has crafted a nickel-sized imaging device that uses organic light-emitting diode technology similar to that…

Nano-infused filters prove effective

Rice University researchers and their colleagues in Finland and Hungary have found a way to make carbon nanotube membranes that could find wide application as…

Caltech-led team designs novel negative-index metamaterial that responds to visible light

A group of scientists led by researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has engineered a type of artificial optical material—a…

New ORNL carbon composite holds promise for bionics

While these nanostructures have electrical and other properties that make them attractive to use as artificial neural bundles in prosthetic devices, the…

Materials Research Advances Reliability Of Faster Smart Sensors

“We’ve taken a sensor material called vanadium oxide and integrated it with a silicon chip,” says Dr. Jay Narayan, the John C. Fan Distinguished Chair…

Berkeley Lab Scientists Create ‘Molecular Paper’

Now, Berkeley Lab scientists have made the largest two-dimensional polymer crystal self-assembled in water to date. This entirely new material mirrors the…

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