Since its invention several millennia ago, concrete has become instrumental to the advancement of civilization, finding use in countless construction applications—from bridges to buildings. And yet, despite centuries of innovation, its function ha...
Apr 21, 2021
Concrete is pretty useful, which is why it’s the most widely used construction material in the world. But it could be argued that it doesn’t really do anything. Now, engineers have made concrete that can conduct electricity and produce heat, by mi...
Apr 21, 2021
A collaboration between MIT and CNRS has yielded a cement that conducts electricity and generates heat.
Apr 21, 2021
Aerogel's are extremely light and porous materials with wide-ranging potential, and mechanical engineers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) are getting pretty good at making them out of all kinds of waste products. Previously, this...
Apr 21, 2021
Using machine learning methods, researchers at TU Graz can predict the structure formation of functionalized molecules at the interfaces of hybrid materials. Now they have also succeeded in looking behind the driving forces of this structure form...
Apr 21, 2021
How these guest atoms are absorbed into or released from the pores is crucial to understanding the porous materials' functionality. However, usually these processes can only be observed indirectly. A team from the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZ...
Apr 21, 2021
Osaka University researchers produced a nickel phosphide nanoalloy catalyst (nano-Ni2P) on a hydrotalcite support for the hydrogenation of maltose to the in-demand sweetener maltitol. The catalyst is selective, highly active, air stable, effective...
Apr 21, 2021
Scientists identify the wettability of graphene layers and improve the understanding of graphene interface properties at molecular levels
Apr 21, 2021
Researchers from Ohio State University developed software that could easily create DNA robots and nanodevices that could do complex tasks such as drug delivery and pathogen detection in the human body.
Apr 20, 2021
Electron holes could be the solution to operational speed/coherence trade-off. A new study indicates holes the solution to operational speed/coherence trade-off, potential scaling up of... The post Faster, Larger Quantum Computers, Tricked-Out Wi...
Apr 20, 2021
