Category: Materials Science and Engineering
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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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Post-silicon computing gets one step closer
Tunable semiconductor could lead to faster, more efficient computers.
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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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Kirigami sensor patch for shoulders could improve injury recovery, athletic training
Low-cost sensors could one day enable patients to log exercise and track progress in a smartphone app
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Hard as ceramic, tough as steel
Newly discovered connection could help with designing nextgen alloys.
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The “Magic Ratio” that could power tomorrow’s solar cells
A Q&A with Rachel Goldman
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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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What’s really behind baseball’s home run surge?
Some pitchers are convinced the balls are being messed with behind the scenes.
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Immortal switches, quantum computers could stem from new semiconductor
Material’s polarity, conductivity change with temperature.
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‘Digital alchemy’ to reverse-engineer new materials
If you tell this computer program what crystal you need to build, it will design a particle that self-assembles into that crystal.
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Kirigami can spin terahertz rays in real time to peer into biological tissue
The rays used by airport scanners might have a future in medical imaging.