Fake diamonds help jet engines take the heat

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Conventional ceramic coating destroyed by molten glass. The field of view is about half a millimeter. Image by Aysegul Aygun and Nitin Padture courtesy of Ohio State University
Conventional ceramic coating destroyed by molten glass. The field of view is about half a millimeter. Image by Aysegul Aygun and Nitin Padture, courtesy of Ohio State University

Ohio State University engineers are developing a technology to coat jet engine turbine blades with zirconium dioxide -- commonly called zirconia, the stuff of synthetic diamonds -- to combat high-temperature corrosion.


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The Lightness of Electrons in a Twisting Metal Crystal

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at Princeton University's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center has observed electrons moving through a crystal of bismuth metal behaving like light.

Scientists demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasers

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Applied scientists at Harvard collaborating with researchers at Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers ...

Proposed Particle Help Explains Odd Galactic Photons

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In 2002, a satellite called INTEGRAL was launched by the European Space Agency with an instrument on board to detect and measure gamma rays from space. Four years later, it yielded some intriguing data: An unusually high ...

Electron microscopy enters the picometer scale

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Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters ...

Revolutionary materials reflect ancient forms

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Although order is pleasing to the eye, it can quickly become boring. In Islamic architecture therefore, decoration often follows a strict yet aperiodic pattern. Similar structures also form ...
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