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.

Smart memory foam made smarter

Researchers from Northwestern University and Boise State University have figured out how to produce a less expensive shape-shifting “memory” foam, which could…

Ames Laboratory scientist using low-gravity space station lab to study crystal growth

A research project 10 years in the making is now orbiting the Earth, much to the delight of its creator Rohit Trivedi, a senior metallurgist at the U.S….

A recipe for controlling carbon nanotubes

Nanoscopic tubes made of a lattice of carbon just a single atom deep hold promise for delivering medicines directly to a tumor, sensors so keen they detect the…

Friction Differences Offer New Tool in Carbon Nanotubes

Publishing in the journal Nature Materials this week, researchers from four different institutions report measuring different friction forces when a carbon…

When nano may not be nano

However, little is known which particles may be harmful. Part of the problem is determining exactly what a nanoparticle is.A new analysis by an international…

Looking deeply into polymer solar cells

This gives them important new insights in the nanoscale structure of polymer solar cells and its effect on the performance. The findings were published online…

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