Tag: Materials
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Egg-carton-style patterning keeps charged nanoparticles in place and suitable for a wide range of applications
Prof. Jay Guo and his team discovered a scalable way to settle down and precisely arrange micro- and nano-sized particles according to size
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$3.4M to turn up the heat at solar-thermal plants
Improved heat-trapping materials for solar thermal energy could help the U.S. meet its goal of cutting solar energy costs in half by 2030.
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How pearls achieve nanoscale precision
Coaxing order from unpredictable layers, mollusks do what humans can’t
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Resurrecting quasicrystals: Findings could make an exotic material commercially viable
Self-healing phenomenon could reduce defects that rendered quasicrystals impractical.
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Nanoengineering integrates crystals that don’t usually get along
A team of computational and experimental engineers demonstrate a blueprint for building materials with new properties from nanocrystals .
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Designing lightweight glass for efficient cars and wind turbines
Lighter, stiffer glass fibers could make composite materials thinner without sacrificing strength.
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Researchers gain control over internal structure of self-assembled composite materials
Researchers new templating technique instills greater order and gives rise to new 3D structures in a special class of high-performance materials, called eutectics.
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How an age-old process could lead to new materials and even invisibility
A Q&A with Ashwin Shahani, U-M assistant professor of materials science and engineering
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Cracking the mystery of nature’s toughest material
How mollusks engineered the most advanced nanostructure on Earth
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Most powerful laser in the US to be built at Michigan
Using extreme light to explore quantum dynamics, advance medicine and more.
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University of Michigan launches Michigan Materials Research institute
Center to unite disciplines, spur new collaborations with government and industry
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3D printing 100 times faster with light
The new method also results in a stronger print than typical layered models.