News tagged with metal materials


Speedier flexible electronics possible with new fabrication process

Speedier flexible electronics possible with new fabrication process

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A clever but simple new way of making transistors out of high-performance organic microwires presents a potential path for products such as smart merchandise tags, light and cheap solar panels, ...





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Truth Is Stranger Than Science

Truth Is Stranger Than Science: Discovering true properties of metal oxides

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- To successfully compete in a global marketplace, manufacturers continually search for better materials: faster drying and less hazardous paint, longer-lasting sunscreen, and faster computers. ...


Hollow spheres made of metal

Hollow spheres made of metal

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Producing metallic hollow spheres is complicated: It has not yet been possible to make the small sizes required for new high-tech applications. Now for the first time researchers have manufactured ground hollow ...


A molecular ripcord for chemical reactions

A molecular ripcord for chemical reactions

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands) have developed an entirely new method for starting chemical reactions. For the first time they used mechanical forces to control catalytic ...


Scientists advance facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.


Dutch chemists make new chiral palladium metal

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have succeeded in making the first ever piece of chiral palladium metal. The findings, by a research team led by Gadi Rothenberg, professor of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable ...


Nano-twinned copper: Chinese-Danish scientists develop super strong nanometals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research shows that it is possible to produce copper about 4 times stronger than commercial material - and doing so while also having a ductile material. As the thermal and electrical conductivity are also good, the manufacturing ...


Metal air battery

Metal-Air Battery Could Store 11 Times More Energy than Lithium-Ion

Technology / Energy

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (49) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- A spinoff company from Arizona State University plans to build a new battery with an energy density 11 times greater than that of lithium-ion batteries for just one-third the cost. With a ...


Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- By modifying a commonly used commercial infrared spectrometer to allow operation at long-wave terahertz frequencies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered ...


Thinnest superconducting metal created

Thinnest superconducting metal created

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick, the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, has been developed by physicists at The University of Texas at Austin.


Design tool for materials with a memory

Design tool for materials with a memory

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shape memory alloys can "remember" a condition. If they are deformed, a temperature change can be enough to bring them back to their original shape. A simulation calculates the characteristics of these materials.



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