DOE accelerates grant funding and adds $900,000 to superconductor group for wind energy project.
Month: December 2012
Tissue engineering scaffolds from natural polymers
Researchers fabricate controllable scaffolds from functionalised Kappa carrageenan, a naturally occurring polymer.
Changing our material future, layer by layer
Researchers are aiming to develop a new class of materials with remarkable properties using one atom-thick substances such as graphene in a new collaborative project.
Testing pumps and valves for corrosion
Researchers from Kuhn Special Steel have investigated the corrosion properties of various alloys used in pump and valve systems.
Sputtering of PET
Etching of PET in a plasma has been mimicked in a particle beam experiment by exposing spin-coated PET samples to quantified fluxes ions and atoms.
Food additive enables printed materials for soft robotics
University of Wollogong researchers have printed materials which can actuate and strain gauge.
Thin, flexible solar panels from Stanford Engineering
Decal-like application process allows “peel-and-stick” solar panels to be applied to virtually any surface.
A festive switch: OLEDs instead of candles?
What would it take for you to replace your old-fashioned candles with modern LEDs this Christmas time?
Micatu Relocates Business Operations to Ceramics Corridor Innovation Center
Micatu, provider of optical based sensors, measurement and biomedical instruments, has announced the relocation of its business operations to the CCIC.
The secret of nanoparticle packing in cement
A research group partly financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation has been researching the perfect composition of Portland cement.
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