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The nanotechnology race between China and USA
National Institutes of Health, USA (upper left) and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China (upper right) are the heart of each country's nanotechnology and nanoscience effort.Before...
View ArticleUnderstanding deformation of metallic glasses
Since their introduction in the 1960s, the interest in metallic glasses has grown steadily, owing to their interesting magnetic, mechanical, and corrosion properties, as well as the continuous...
View ArticleAwkward abbrevs.
I keep a close eye on various areas of analytical science including X-ray techniques, atomic spectrometry, cheminformatics, and various forms of spectroscopy - infrared, ultraviolet, Raman, and nuclear...
View ArticleHydrogen behaviour in solid materials
Hydrogen is the lightest element in the periodic table and, as hydrogen-based technology rapidly advances, in particular for powering car engines, the need for better fundamental understanding of...
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The Recarbonisation Revolution
Pöyry’s Head of Biofutures, Petri Vasara, calls for a recarbonisation revolution of global material flows by increasing biomass materials over non-renewable ones in the movement of global trade. The...
View ArticleStonehenge dogs and pink tattoos
New evidence from Stonehenge suggests that travelers made the journey from what is now the Vale of York (250 miles away) with their "pet" dog thousands of years before the stone monument was even...
View ArticleKeeping Pace with Innovations in Advanced Materials: Trends Not to Miss
Materials Science has played a fundamental role in human history, so much so that historians have named entire time periods – Stone, Bronze, and Iron – after them. Each step forward in the evolution of...
View ArticleMaterials science of additive manufacturing (AM)
Over the past few years, additive manufacturing (AM) has attracted much attention, owing to the promise for direct printing of parts with complex-shapes which would not be possible to machine using...
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Here's How NASA Plans to Use 3D Printing to Enable In-Space Manufacturing
Image Source: PexelsHumans have built all sorts of buildings across the world and it was only a matter of time before we started thinking bigger, outer-space to be exact. Recently, NASA has revealed...
View ArticleUnder pressure
I vaguely recall some of my undergraduate chemistry lectures with more than Spartan detail. I remember the one about relativity and how it makes mercury liquid and gold gold in color, I mentioned this...
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The 3Rs: a 21st century approach to nanosafety
The 3Rs provides a framework to support a paradigm shift in the field of nanosafety.Due to the plethora of nanomaterials being manufactured, it is crucial that their effects on human health are...
View ArticleMicro goes nano for Nobel chemists
Once this year's Nobel Prize for Physics had been awarded to the invention of blue LEDs, was there much chance that the prediction of conducting polymers winning the Chemistry? Aside from the...
View ArticleReflecting on diffraction
In case you didn't know, it's the International Year of Crystallography. A year-long celebration of all metrics crystalline initiated by the United Nations to celebrate the centenary of the discovery...
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Ice crystals give up their secrets in microgravity
An ice dendrite grown in space (Credit: Hokkaido Univ./JAXA).Although ice crystals are all around us, both on Earth and in space, it isn’t fully understood how their beautiful structures form. Japanese...
View ArticleAll the days of our lives
I'm writing this on St Patrick's Day, which is also apparently Happy Song Day, Sunday just gone was Mothering Sunday (or Mother's Day if you want just the commercialized, non-religious version), it's...
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Enhancement of photovoltaic power of single-walled carbon nanotube films by...
(a) Schematic illustration of the thin/thick SWCNT film. The right side of the film is thick. The yellow dotted square is the area of solar light irradiation. The numbers represent the size in...
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Nature shows the way for new material design
Cicada.Over two thousand years ago Aristotle is reputed to have said, “Nature does nothing in vain”. This view of organisms being endowed with an inherent purposefulness is also true when one considers...
View ArticleSteroids for the brain
There are countless illicit drugs used by sports people to boost muscle growth, improve stamina and enhance their performance. The analytical laboratories used by the sports authorities expend vast...
View ArticleDanceroom spectroscopy
What does molecular physics, cutting edge light technology, ambient sound and dance all have in common? They were all put together recently to create a Danceroom Spectroscopy event. The event was held...
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Focus on apparel complexity: Cotton fabric topography by CLSM
2014 cover competition runners up Dario Donnarumma and colleagues discuss their winning image. Explore more winning images, that will be featured on the 2016 covers of the Materials Today journal....
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