HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Composites Made from Scrapped Wind Turbine Blades
Damaged blades, 173 feet in length, were recycled for manufacturing applications.
Floatable Metal Matrix Demonstrated by Research Teams
Composite has potential applications in boat flooring, automobile parts and buoyancy modules as well as in vehicle armor.
Researchers Develop Bubbles That Could Boost Electronics’ Energy Efficiency
Scientists use simple equipment and widely available materials to create skyrmion bubbles at room temperature.
EPA Takes Step Towards Regulating Commercial Aircraft Emissions
Environmental agency's findings could lead it to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under sections of the federal Clean Air Act.
Oak Ridge Lab Teams with Hyundai on Automotive Research Projects
Agreement could lead to R&D work on a range of automotive technologies.
ACS Seeks to Improve Academic Laboratory Safety
Deliverables could include a central incident reporting system and safety education guidelines.
Researchers Probe How "Perfect" Materials Can Fail
Ambient temperature may be more of a factor than previously thought, turning atoms to a liquid-like state.
British 3D Printer Targets 2017 Release
Components could be built at the rate of one second or less per part.
Harvard Engineering School Nets $400mn Endowment
Growing school to occupy a campus next to Harvard Innovation Lab.
Researchers Develop Tough Hydrogel Structures with 3D Printing
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Duke University and Columbia University have created a way to make tough, but soft and wet, biocompatible materials, called “hydrogels” into complex and intricately patterned shapes.
Researchers Find Wastewater May Form Troublesome Antibiotics
Researchers from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte say that treatments to clean waste water may actually create new antibiotics, further adding to the problem of antibiotic resistance in the environment.
Tree Fibers Are Source for High-Capacity, Soft and Elastic Batteries
Using nanocellulose broken down from tree fibers, researchers in Sweden and the U.S. have produced a foam-like battery material that can withstand shock and stress.
Cool Roof Technology Could Help Cut Urban Heat Loads
Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have developed a surface made of a combination of polyesters on a silver layer called a “coated polymer stack” that they say can remain cooler than ambient air.
Researchers Develop Lower-Cost Chemical Catalysts
Yale University researchers have developed palladium-based catalysts, which may provide a less expensive and more sustainable alternative for producing industrial chemicals.
Semiconductor Chip Made from Wood-Derived Material
Chinese and U.S. researchers from the Department of Agriculture and University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison has developed a semiconductor chip that is made almost entirely out of wood-derived material.
Researchers Develop Heat-Triggered Self-Destructing Electronic Devices
University of Illinois researchers have developed heat-triggered self-destructing electronic devices, which they say is a step toward reducing electronic waste and boosting sustainability in device manufacturing.
Researchers Use AI Concepts to Enable Robots to Adapt on Their Own
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed algorithms that enable robots to learn motor tasks through trial and error.
Defects Could Be Used to Improve Lithium-ion Battery Design
Twin boundaries—which are small, symmetrical defects in materials—may present an opportunity to improve lithium-ion batteries, according to researchers at the Michigan Technological University.
Printable Graphene Moves Closer to Commercial Viability with Antenna Success
Researchers from the University of Manchester, in collaboration with U.K.-based BGT Materials, have printed a radio frequency antenna using compressed graphene ink.
Seashell Strength Inspires Mechanical Stress Tests
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science and Rice University in Texas are learning how shells stand up to extraordinary pressures at the bottom of the sea.