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Tailored Properties by Smart Microstructural Adjustments
A proposal to extend the traditional two-dimensional material performance map to a multi-dimensional view incorporating local formability, such as hole expansion ratio or bending angle during the development of future automotive steel grades.
Hydrogen Production from Nickel Sulfide Nanoparticle Films
Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo have used layer-by-layer assembly to create stabilized films of nanoparticles for electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution.
Improved Fabrication Method for Flexible Spinel-Ferrite-Based Devices
Chunrui Ma, Ming Liu, and colleagues develop a practical way to transfer flexible, centimeter-scale, single-crystalline spinel ferrite oxide thin films onto flexible substrates for applications in flexible and wearable electronics.
EUROMAT2017 Conference Celebrates Its 15th Edition
This years’ EUROMAT2017 conference will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece, 17-22 September.
Painting Silk with Water and Light
A naturally occurring structural protein (silk fibroin) is used to generate a large inverse opal. Selective exposure to water and/or light can change silk’s conformation thus painting different structural colors.
Plasma Pretreatment Processes Improve Plastic Coatings Twofold
A new study shows that propanol-based plasma pretreatment of plastics not only improves adhesion of coatings to plastics but improves the coatings themselves as well.
Silver Nanowire-Coated Textiles for Cold Weather Clothing
Energized fabrics could keep soldiers warm and battle-ready in extreme climatic operating environments.
New Spectroscopic Technique to Detect Epilepsy in Children
Italian researchers explored the diagnostic capability of a multimodal spectroscopic approach for classifying normal brain tissue and epileptogenic focal cortical dysplasia in children.
Non-Toxic Targeted Gene Therapy in Obese Rats
Obesity is a growing epidemic around the world.
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