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.

Water may not run uphill, but it practically flies off new surface

The inspiration? Not wax. Not glass. Not even Teflon.Instead, University of Florida engineers have achieved what they label in a new paper a “nearly perfect…

Stressed nanomaterials display unexpected movement

This finding, detailed recently in the journal Science, is important because these nanomaterials are becoming more ubiquitous in the fabrication of…

New photonic material may facilitate all-optical switching and computing

A class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could provide the demanding combination of properties…

Material tested that could guarantee body protheses for more than 150 years

Researcher Nere Garmendia, based in the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastián, has just published her PhD, a thesis which may well mean the first step to…

USM produces new composite from polystyrene

Polystyrene is regarded as one of the materials that is hazardous to the environment as it needs more than 100 years to degrade into the ground. In fact,…

MIT commissions Peratech to develop next generation tactile robotic skin

The key to the sensing technology is Peratech's patented 'QTC' materials. QTC's, or Quantum Tunnelling Composites, are a unique new material type which…

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