3 Questions: MIT’s Ariel Ekblaw on Building Beautiful Architecture in Space The TESSERAE project, a design for self-assembling space structures and habitats, has sent prototypes... The post MIT TESSERAE Project: Building Beautiful Architecture in...
May 11, 2022
Ever smaller and more intricate -- without miniaturization, we wouldn't have the components today that are required for high-performance laptops, compact smartphones or high-resolution endoscopes. Research is now being carried out in the nano...
May 11, 2022
Researchers at the Harvey Mudd College in the U.S have made an unexpected discovery that holds exciting potential for creating robust water-repellent coatings using gas-phase-synthesized graphene (GSG) and other nanomaterials. Last summer, the res...
May 11, 2022
A group of engineers incorporated a common form of industrial plastic with carbon nanotubes to make tougher and stronger materials. Find out more about it.
May 11, 2022
Enhancing thermal transmittance, increasing moisture management and providing rapid drying....
May 11, 2022
Microscopic measurement of wettability can be achieved at the molecular level using ‘vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy’ (VSFG). Wettability of the material is the ability of... The post Measuring the “Wettability” of Graphene and ...
May 10, 2022
Neutrinos from the early universe have never been detected directly but a device that uses the atom-thick material graphene might be able to change that
May 10, 2022
Neutrinos from the early universe have never been detected directly but a device that uses the atom-thick material graphene might be able to change that
May 10, 2022
We’ve gotten very, very good at making things that are cheap and durable. Unfortunately, there are some deleterious side effects. Among them: Our society generates massive amounts of waste that is going to remain in landfills for a long time. Wha...
May 10, 2022
An intermediate layer consisting of a few atoms is helping to improve the transport of spin currents from one material to another. Until now, this process involves significant losses. A team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), th...
May 10, 2022
