HEADLINES ARCHIVE
A Solar Cell of a Different Stripe
Ferroelectric nanostructure layers might serve as transport paths for charge carriers in perovskite solar cells.
Low Proliferation Risk Fuel Tested for Research Reactors
Verification testing is complete for a high-density low-enriched uranium fuel for use in civil research reactors.
DAP Products Offers New Spackling Solutions
DAP's ALEX Brand includes two new solutions, including a flexible product that moves with repaired surfaces.
Catalyst for Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Gasoline-range Hydrocarbons
A stable catalyst directly produces gasoline-range hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide hydrogenation.
Recycling Carbon Fiber
Researchers at Washington State University may have found a way to recycle expensive carbon fiber plastics that are used in almost everything from airplanes to wind energy.
Video: Paraffin Wax Fuels Hybrid Rocket Engine
The Peregrine hybrid rocket motor uses wax as a solid fuel and nitrous oxide as a liquid oxidizer.
Killing Bacteria with Paper-Based Sanitizers
Motivated by a 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, researchers from Rutgers setting out to create bacteria-fighting personal protective equipment have created a paper-based device with bacteria-fighting layers.
Smart Pad Puts Pressure on Scars
A new treatment for hypertrophic scars from burns, surgeries, and trauma combines the advantages of traditional pressure pads and silicone gel sheets.
Quantum Yields Exceed 100 Percent for Hydrogen Production
A quantum dot photoelectrochemical cell achieved quantum efficiency for hydrogen gas production exceeding 100 percent.
Material Sourcing Made Easy
Material sourcing can be an inefficient, challenging and expensive process. Especially when undertaken by a small organization without teams in place to search out what materials fit, the task can be especially daunting.
Water as an Energy Storage Medium?
A material incorporating atomically thin layers of water stores and delivers energy faster than the same material without water layers.
Self-folding Origami with LED Projector and PowerPoint Slide
The structures, all about a half-inch in size, could have applications in soft robots, microelectronics, soft actuators, mechanical metamaterials and biomedical devices.
Inspired by Sea Worm's Jaw, Researchers Create New Material
The sea worm's (Nereis virens) ability to soften or harden its jaw depending on its environment has inspired researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create a material that can be both flexible and inflexible.
Unique Spider Silk Is Better than Kevlar
The brown recluse spider’s method of spinning its uniquely strong silk suggests new ways to create strong materials for impact-absorbing structures.
Get Dirty!
Inundated with a lifetime's worth of advertisements declaring dirt the enemy has created a society of people afraid of inviting muddy bacteria-laden chaos into their lives.
NIST-developed Method to Detect Cracks in Infrastructure
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) have created a method to detect corrosion in aging infrastructure.
Simple, No-bake Brick Recipe
Engineers hoping to provide habitats for a future manned mission to Mars have found a way to create bricks using soil from that planet.
Fast Method for Synthesizing Critical Concrete Additive
A new method for synthesizing tobermorite, a mineral that increases concrete durability, speeds up production times from days to hours.
Low GWP Refrigerants - Understanding GWP, GHG, ODP and Climate Change
Low GWP is important, but only one of many factors involved in refrigerant selection and safe use, such as flammability, toxicity, VOC levels, cost and availability.
Video: Triggering Artificial Photosynthesis to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
The process has the potential to create technology that could significantly reduce greenhouse gases linked to climate change as well as a way to produce energy.