Rice University researchers have learned to manipulate two-dimensional materials to design in defects that enhance the materials' properties.
Nanomaterials
Aug 9, 2017
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Yale researchers have proposed a new model to explain the drop in elastic stiffness in the middle of the Earth's continental lithosphere.
Earth Sciences
Jun 15, 2015
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(Phys.org)—Using graphene – either as an alternative to, or most likely as a complementary material with – silicon, offers the promise of much faster future electronics, along with several other advantages over the ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 15, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) have demonstrated a new low energy electron beam technique and used it to probe the nanoscale electronic properties of grain boundaries ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 5, 2013
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Producing low-cost metal-oxide thin films with high electronic quality for solar water splitting is not an easy task. Especially since quality improvements of the upper metal oxide thin films need thermal processing at high ...
Materials Science
Apr 4, 2022
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A researcher from North Carolina State University has developed a technique for creating high-density ceramic materials that requires far lower temperatures than current techniques – and takes less than a second, as opposed ...
Materials Science
Feb 27, 2013
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Polycrystals are solid materials that are made up of lots of small crystals. The points where the crystals meet are known as grain boundaries (GBs). GBs are important because they can affect the way the solid behaves. However, ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 2, 2021
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To develop advanced materials, a deep understanding of their underlying microstructure and chemistry is necessary. Knowing how defects influence the interplay between microstructure and chemical composition is crucial, as ...
Nanophysics
Aug 1, 2023
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Experimentalists searching for strong structural materials have established that nanocrystalline metals, which have average grain sizes smaller than 100 nanometers, are stronger, harder and more resistant to fatigue than ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 29, 2014
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Though the Summer Olympics were postponed, there's at least one place to see agile hurdlers go for the gold.
Materials Science
Sep 8, 2020
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