Materials Science
May 11, 2021
Metal organic frameworks' metallic mastery
The tightly defined ratios of metals in MOFs makes them ideal starting materials for novel catalyst creation.
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Materials Science
May 7, 2021
Transforming atmospheric carbon into industrially useful materials
Plants are unparalleled in their ability to capture CO2 from the air, but this benefit is temporary, as leftover crops release carbon back into the atmosphere, mostly through decomposition. Researchers have proposed a more ...
Materials Science
Apr 30, 2021
Electron beam melting gets brittle metal into shape
Tungsten has the highest melting point of all metals, 3,422 degrees Celsius. This makes the material ideal for use at high temperatures in e.g. space rocket nozzles, heating elements of high-temperature furnaces, or the fusion ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 29, 2021
Blueprint for a robust quantum future
Claiming that something has a defect normally suggests an undesirable feature. That's not the case in solid-state systems, such as the semiconductors at the heart of modern classical electronic devices. They work because ...
Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2021
Hot and cold space radio testing
ESA's newest radio-frequency test facility allows direct measurement of antenna systems in the very vacuum conditions and thermal extremes they will work in, including the chill of deep space. It will soon be put to work ...
Nanophysics
Apr 19, 2021
Tracking topological conditions in graphene
Scientists have been able to demonstrate that graphene nanostructures can be generated by annealing of a nanostructured silicon carbide crystal for a few years. "These two-dimensional, spatially strongly restricted carbon ...
Polymers
Apr 12, 2021
Chemists create renewable plant-based polymers
Researchers at the Laboratory of Cluster Catalysis at St Petersburg University have synthesized polymers from biomass. What makes them different is that they can be easily recycled.
Materials Science
Apr 6, 2021
Scientists obtain high-entropy carbide in electric arc plasma
Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University have synthetized high-entropy carbide consisting of five various metals using a vacuum-free electric arc method. The research findings are published in the Journal of Engineering ...
Materials Science
Apr 6, 2021
Molybdenum titanium carbide viable in additive manufacturing
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists proved molybdenum titanium carbide, a refractory metal alloy that can withstand extreme temperature environments, can also be crack free and dense when produced with electron beam ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 30, 2021
New insight into the surface properties of two-dimensional MXenes materials
CEST researchers have uncovered novel insight/results about surface functionalization of materials used in a wide range of applications, such as energy storage, biochemistry, sensing, and energy production
