Researchers recently discovered a helicoidal-shaped defect in layered polymers, uncovering how solvents can diffuse through layers and produce color changes. Dr. Edwin L. Thomas, professor in the ...
(Nanowerk News) An international research collaboration, including a group from Cornell Engineering, has applied a new X-ray-based reconstruction technique to observe, for the first time, topological ...
When we talk about defects, we generally think of flaws or impairments. However, as far as materials science is concerned, defects represent windows of opportunity. A new Collaborative Research Center ...
Scientists at the Northwestern Polytechnical University in China and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL) have fabricated an inverted perovskite solar cell based on a star-shaped ...
The UMass Amherst-led team challenges the conventional wisdom that perfect fillers are better for making thermally conductive polymers AMHERST, Mass. — In the quest to design the next generation of ...
A new study uncovers revealing insights into how plastic materials used in electronics are formed, and how hidden flaws in their structure could be limiting their performance. Subscribe to our ...
In this interview, Joerg Koehler, Head of Business Unit Industrial at Bruker BioSpin talks to AZoM about the benefits of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and what is it used for. What is Electron ...
Polymers are defined as materials consisting of macromolecules that are made up of small, regularly repeating smaller subunits. The coextrusion process is a manufacturing process that uses different ...