Category: Advanced Materials
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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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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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Ice-proofing big structures with a “beautiful demonstration of mechanics”
‘You’re missing a trick,’ mechanical engineer tells materials scientist.
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The material that could power tomorrow’s solar cells
‘We estimate that a finished solar cell could be about ten times cheaper than an equivalent gallium arsenide cell.’
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“Everything-repellent” coating could kid-proof phones, homes
Clear surface repels all liquids
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Microscale 3D printing for medicine
New “jet writing” technique can make detailed 3D structures with clinically relevant materials for future implants and cancer studies.
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Holography and LIDAR on the cheap with nanoparticle gel
Magnetic nanoparticles coated in amino acids can modulate light inexpensively at room temperature, and the findings have applications in autonomous vehicles.
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Semiconductor breakthrough may be game-changer for organic solar cells
Buildings, clothing could generate power.