University of Wollogong researchers have printed materials which can actuate and strain gauge.
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?
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.
NREL and Johnson Matthey announce 5-year collaboration on biofuels
Goal is to develop new catalysts to lower costs for producing biofuels.
Wind, solar power paired with storage could be cost-effective way to power grid
Renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 at costs comparable to today’s electricity expenses.
Altuglas, NatureWorks Collaborate to Market New High Performance Biopolymer Alloys
Materials will be marketed by Altuglas International as Plexiglas/Altuglas Rnew biopolymer alloys.
Creating p-n junctions in graphene films
Researchers create junctions, essential to electronics fabrication, by transferring graphene films onto patterned monolayer substrates.
Where Materials Scientists Meet – the 2012 MRS Fall Meeting
The 2012 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society (MRS) took place in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from November 25 to November 30.
Researchers measure supercollision cooling of hot electronics in graphene
Cornell research team shed light on electron cooling through the first known direct measurements of hot electrons cooling down in graphene.
Seeing the Light? Making Sense of Disorder in Polymer Opals
A new hyperspectral goniometry technique, to measure 3D angular scattering of light, shows scattering from polymer opals is anisotropic.






