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New 'tougher-than-metal' fiber-reinforced hydrogels

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

Efforts are currently underway around the world to create materials that are friendly to both society and the environment. Among them are those that comprise di...

New use for paper industry's sludge and fly ash in plastics

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland examined, as part of the EU's Reffibre project, whether new industrial applications could be developed for various type...

Scientists forgo kiln, bake ceramics with pressure

Feb 28, 2017 (UPI)

Industrial kilns, the commercial ovens used to fire bathroom tiles and tableware, operate at temperatures in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius. Scientists at ETH ...

Materials that emit rainbows

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

Mechanochromic luminescent (MCL) materials change their color in response to a change in their environment, like pressure and temperature. To date, most MCL mat...

When Rocket Science Meets X-ray Science

Feb 28, 2017 (SPX)

It takes rocket science to launch and fly spacecraft to faraway planets and moons, but a deep understanding of how materials perform under extreme conditions is...

Raytheon gets $1 billion radar contract for Qatar

Feb 27, 2017 (UPI)

Raytheon received a $1 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide an early warning radar system for the government of Qatar. Early warning radar system...

NASA team develops modular avionics systems for small missions

Feb 27, 2017 (SPX)

In just two years' time, a team of NASA engineers accomplished what some thought impossible: the group created a smaller, more capable "brain" for smaller space...

Serendipity uncovers borophene's potential

Feb 24, 2017 (SPX)

Almost one year ago, borophene didn't even exist. Now, just months after a Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory team discovered the material,...

Scientists discover how essential methane catalyst is made

Feb 24, 2017 (SPX)

New ways to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into methane gas for energy use are a step closer after scientists discovered how bacteria make a component that facili...

New assembly method for ultra-conformable 'electronic tattoo' devices

Feb 24, 2017 (SPX)

A group of researchers at Waseda University has developed processes and materials for ultrathin stick-on electronic devices using elastomeric "nanosheet" film, ...

Terma partner wins Indian radar contract

Feb 23, 2017 (UPI)

India's Nova Integrated Systems, in partnership with Terma AS, has signed an Indian Ministry of Defense contract to provide naval surface surveillance radar. Th...

Raytheon gets contract for Silent Knight radar systems

Feb 23, 2017 (UPI)

Raytheon received a $45.5 million contract modification for the delivery of Silent Knight Radar systems to the U.S. Special Operations Command. The modification...

Penn engineers overcome a hurdle in growing a revolutionary optical metamaterial

Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)

When John Crocker, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science was a grad...

New metamaterial is first to achieve performance as predicted by theoretical bounds

Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)

In 2015 UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer and materials scientist Jonathan Berger developed an idea that could change the way people think about high-perform...

ESA's six-legged Suntracker flying on a Dragon

Feb 21, 2017 (ESA)

Tomorrow, a Space-X Dragon cargo ferry will be launched to the International Space Station packed with supplies, experiments, tools and food for the six astrona...

Kelvin Hughes to provide SharpEye radars for U.K. OPVs

Feb 21, 2017 (UPI)

Britain's Royal Navy has selected Kelvin Hughes to supply its SharpEye radar systems for its new Batch 2 offshore patrol vessels. Under the contract, the ships ...

Developing a catalytic conveyor belt

Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)

Capitalizing on previous studies in self-powered chemo-mechanical movement, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering and Penn...

Designing new materials from 'small' data

Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)

Finding new functional materials is always tricky. But searching for very specific properties among a relatively small family of known materials is even more di...

When ultrafast laser pulse meets magnetic materials

Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)

Ultrafast non-equilibrium magnetization in correlated spin systems is extensively studied in recent years. At both fundamental and application levels, ultrafast...

Lossless metamaterial could boost efficiency of lasers and other light-based devices

Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a material that could reduce signal losses in photonic devices. The advance has the potential...