New material discovery and application trends
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Popular Mechanics
A new shape memory material stays strong even after tens of millions of transformations. It may finally pave way for widespread usage of the futuristic materials.
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Market Watch
These type of tech advancements make smartphones look dumb, writes Jurica Dujmovic.
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SCMP
Chinese scientists’ new ‘super-strong foam’ could form lightweight tank and troop armour
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New York Times
Researchers said they have developed a technique for creating a substance they are calling Q-carbon, which could have uses in medicine and industry.
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Futurism
Scientists have managed to develop a novel method to grow stable, ultra-long 1D carbon chains of a material that is twice as strong as carbon nanotubes and far stronger than diamonds.
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Telegraph
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Science Daily
When mixed with lightweight polymers, tiny carbon tubes reinforce the material, promising lightweight and strong materials for airplanes, spaceships, cars and even sports equipment. While such carbon nanotube-polymer nanocomposites have attracted enormous interest from the materials research community, a group of scientists now has evidence that a different nanotube -- made from boron nitride -- c
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Newsweek
The material could revolutionize production of automobiles, airplanes and spacecraft.
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Popular Mechanics
"You're left with a virtually flawless ceramic."
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BBC
A super-hard metal is made in the laboratory by melting together titanium and gold.
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Science Daily
How can we move beyond solid state electronics towards flexible soft circuit systems? New self-propelling liquid metals could be the answer. The advance opens the potential for creating makeshift and floating electronics, bringing science fiction - like the shape-shifting liquid metal T-1000 Terminator - one step closer to real life.
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Science News
Scientists are getting close to turning hydrogen into a metal — both in liquid form and maybe even solid form. The rewards, if they pull it off, are worth the effort.
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UPI
Scientists in Russia are currently perfecting a new type of ceramic that can withstand temperatures of more than 3,000 degrees Celsius.
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Popular Mechanics
"We need fundamental breakthroughs of just this sort."
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Popular Mechanics
New research from Cornell University brings the worlds of soft-materials science with futuristic physics.
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The Independent
‘It’s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you’re looking at it, you’re looking at something that’s never existed before’
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New Scientist
A new foam material could be the first good reusable method to recover spilled oil, and would be much better for the environment
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Duke University
Supercomputer-generated recipes yield two new kinds of magnets
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Science Alert
Finding time to stop, plug in and recharge could become history, with scientists developing a new electrode design that could charge batteries in seconds instead of hours.
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Nanowerk
New surfaces create promise of safer implants, more accurate diagnostic tests.
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Physics
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Science Daily
Researchers have discovered a new material that could lead to highly sensitive biomolecule detectors and more efficient solar cells.
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Osaka University
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South China Morning Post
Process in which copper is blasted with argon gas creates particles with similar properties to gold, with the resulting material having the potential to reduce use of precious metals in manufacturing.
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Inquirer
Under a microscope, the substance looks like a honeycomb. It could be used to make high-tech batteries and ultra-light cases for electronics equipment.
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Mysteryx
Russian researchers have now made a fantastic innovation that can transform any element into another.
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New Atlas
Metallic glass is an emerging type of material, so its secrets are still being discovered. While working with the stuff, a team of Yale researchers created a brand new type of metallic glass, by shrinking samples down to the nanoscale until it forms a unique crystalline phase.
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Physics
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TechXplore
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Singularity Hub
Materials science is sometimes serendipitous but more often painstaking. The latest machine learning tools are offering scientists a way to significantly accelerate the process of discovery with AI.
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UCI
Based on fictional dinosaurs and squid, technology could protect soldiers and structures
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Isaac Arthur
A look at revolutionary new materials with seemingly impossible properties. Start protecting your internet experience today with 77% off a 3 year plan by usi...
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University of Michigan
'Everything-repellent' coating could kidproof phones, homes
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Science
If you manage to deform a diamond, it usually means you have broken it. Diamonds have very high hardness, but they do not deform elastically. This limits their usefulness for some applications. However, Banerjee et al. discovered that diamond nanoneedles can deform elastically after all (see the Perspective by LLorca). The key was in their small size (300 nm), which allowed for very smooth-surface
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Colorado State University
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The Verge
Scientists are using artificial intelligence to speed up the process to find new materials. Recently, researchers at Northwestern University used AI to discover how to make new metal-glass hybrids 200 times faster than they would have doing experiments.
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KTH
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Two Minute Papers
The paper "Gaussian Material Synthesis" and its source code is available here:https://users.cg.tuwien.ac.at/zsolnai/gfx/gaussian-material-synthesis/Our Patre...
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Futurism
Scientists are perfecting a near indestructible gel made of mostly air with applications in everything from fashion to the far reaches of space.
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Northeasturn University
Northeastern University's official news source
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Future Timeline
FutureTimeline.net - the latest news and breakthroughs in the world of science and technology
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South China Morning Post
Chinese scientists develop shape-shifting robot inspired by T-1000 from Terminator
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Forbes
Our ability to discover and master new materials drives scientific and economic progress. Now the convergence of Artificial Intelligence and materials science can make this progress a lot faster.
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BGR
Most of us think we have a pretty solid grasp on basic physics, and one of the assumptions we've come to form is that any material gets thinner as it's stretched.
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Seeker
Climate change doesn’t just hit our atmosphere, it’s also making parts of our ocean floor disappear. How Seeker Will Collect The Most Extensive Data Set of t...
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The Conversation
Nanotechnology and materials are the source of countless innovations, but we don't accurately know how they are affecting humans and the environment.
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Physics
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Down To Earth
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Technology Review
Not so long ago, graphene was the great new wonder material. A super-strong, atom-thick sheet of carbon “chicken wire,” it can form tubes, balls, and other curious shapes. And because it conducts electricity, materials scientists raised the prospect of a new era of graphene-based computer processing and a lucrative graphene chip industry to boot. The…
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Discover
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Bloomberg
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New Atlas
Concrete is a mix of cement, an aggregate such as gravel, and water. For added strength, steel fibers are often added. Now, scientists are claiming that a new type of fiber-reinforced concrete could soon serve as a lighter and greener alternative.
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Science Magazine
U-carbon could be used in lightweight coatings, medical products, and novel electronic devices
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The Royal Institution
Chemical elements are integral to our modern technology and even to the origins of life itself - but what would happen if we were to run out of them? Subscri...
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Physics
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Singularity
Far beyond devices and circuitry, materials science stands at the center of innumerable breakthroughs across energy, future cities, transit, and medicine.
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Science Alert
Scientists have identified a sudden explosion of mineral diversity on the surface of our planet that would not exist if it weren't for humans, adding weight to the argument that we're living in a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene.
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Real Clear Science
In 2004, researchers at the University of Manchester isolated and characterized graphene. A nearly flat, one-atom-thick crystalline form of carbon, the 2D
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Protocol
Technological advances will help us tackle some of the world's biggest problems, but only if society prioritizes scientific research, argues Darío Gil, the director of IBM Research.
