Alloy of hydrogen and oxygen made from water October 26, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 147 vote(s)
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Water, the only indispensable ingredient of life, is just about the most versatile stuff on Earth. Depending on its temperature we can heat our homes with it, bathe in it, and even strap on skates and glide across it, to ... | |
 More Solid than Solid: A Potential Hydrogen-Storage Compound April 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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One of the key engineering challenges to building a clean, efficient, hydrogen-powered car is how to design the fuel tank. Storing enough raw hydrogen for a reasonable driving range would require either impractically ... | |
 Possible Mechanism for Enormous Electromechanical Response May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators at Stony Brook University, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have ... | |
New plastic is strong as steel, transparent October 04, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 224 vote(s)
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By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and transparent. | |
 Research puts new wrinkle in study of materials folding under pressure May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Scientists at the University of Chicago and the University of Santiago in Chile have explained, for the first time, the physics that governs how thin materials at scales millions of times different in thickness ... | |
Disorder Enables Extreme Sensitivity in Piezoelectric Materials May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has found an explanation for the extreme sensitivity to mechanical pressure or voltage of a special class of solid materials called relaxors. The ... | |
 Researchers create gold aluminum, black platinum, blue silver February 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 110 vote(s)
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Using a tabletop laser, a University of Rochester optical scientist has turned pure aluminum, gold. And blue. And gray. And many other colors. And it works for every metal tested, including platinum, titanium, ... | |
Metamaterials found to work for visible light January 04, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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Ames Laboratory researchers have found the first metamaterial known to work for visible light, announcing the discovery in the Jan. 5 issue of Science. | |
 Foldable and stretchable, silicon circuits conform to many shapes March 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching, compressing, ... | |
 Can a Polymer Help Curb Arctic Ice Melting? April 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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In order to help prevent the melting of Arctic ice, a process that has been occurring at alarming rates in recent years, which many scientists believe is due gradual global warming, a group of researchers ... | |
Ultra-intense laser blast creates true 'black metal' November 21, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 101 vote(s)
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"Black gold" is not just an expression anymore. Scientists at the University of Rochester have created a way to change the properties of almost any metal to render it, literally, black. The process, using an incredibly intense ... | |
 A Boost for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research January 25, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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The development of hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles, the ultimate green dream in transportation energy, is another step closer. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ... | |
New Method for Creating Tough Metallic Glass Composites February 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have developed a new strategy for creating "liquid metal" that makes it able to bend significantly without breaking, while retaining a strength twice that of titanium. ... | |
 Engineers 'bone' up on biological materials May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In a recent feature article published in Materials Research Society's Bulletin, Dr Michelle Oyen explores the potential uses of synthetic bone-like material. Michelle suggests that these materials will ... | |
New research could lead to 'invisible' electronics December 22, 2006 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Imagine a car windshield that displays a map to your destination, military goggles with targets and instructions displayed right before a soldier's eyes or a billboard that doubles as a window. | |
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