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Physics - Materials Science - 17.04.2025

An international team led by Fabian Garmroudi has succeeded in producing new, efficient thermoelectric materials that could compete with state-of-the-art materials, offering greater stability and lower cost. Thermoelectric materials enable the direct conversion of heat into electrical energy. This makes them particularly attractive for the emerging "Internet of Things", for example for the autonomous energy supply of microsensors and other tiny electronic components.
Physics - Materials Science - 15.04.2025

A breakthrough by researchers at The University of Manchester sheds light on one of nature's most elusive forces, with wide-reaching implications for medicine, energy, climate modelling and more. Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed a ground-breaking method to precisely measure the strength of hydrogen bonds in confined water systems, an advance that could transform our understanding of water's role in biology, materials science, and technology.
Materials Science - 07.04.2025

For the first time, ETH materials scientists are measuring the rolling friction of tiny, micrometre-sized particles. These measurements permit them to better understand everyday products such as concrete. Lacquers, paint, concrete-and even ketchup or orange juice: Suspensions are widespread in industry and everyday life.
Environment - Materials Science - 07.04.2025

After the groundbreaking creation of the first bio-based handbag made from mycelium leather, the Microbiology research group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) expands their research on mycelium-based materials into new product categories. Led by Prof. Eveline Peeters and Prof. Elise Vanden Elsacker, the team explores mycelium, the root structure of fungi, as viable alternative to animal and synthetic leather.
Materials Science - Physics - 20.03.2025

The [X-MAT] research team from the Chair of Nonferrous Metallurgy, in collaboration with international partners, has made a significant breakthrough in the development of radiation-resistant materials for nuclear fusion reactors. Their latest study, published in Advanced Science (DOI: 10.1002/advs.202417659), challenges conventional high-entropy alloy (HEA) concept by demonstrating that reduced chemical complexity can still achieve superior radiation tolerance.
Chemistry - Materials Science - 18.03.2025

New method can improve the efficiency and flexibility of displays, solar cells and transistors Scientists at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna, have unveiled an innovative approach for synthesizing azaparacyclophanes (APCs), a class of highly advanced ring-shaped molecular structures with immense potential in material science.
Physics - Materials Science - 12.03.2025
Rare quantum effect paves the way for topological quantum computing
Scientists at the Universities of Basel and Cologne have revealed a key superconducting effect in topological insulator nanowires. Their findings bring topological insulator nanowires closer to serving as the foundation for stable, next-generation quantum bits (qubits). Physicists at the Universities of Basel and Cologne have taken an important step forward in the pursuit of topological quantum computing: They observed for the first time ever the so-called Crossed Andreev Reflection (CAR) in topological insulator (TI) nanowires.
Physics - Materials Science - 12.03.2025

When water freezes into ice or boils into vapour, its properties change dramatically at specific temperatures. These so-called phase transitions are fundamental to understanding materials. But how do such transitions behave in nanomaterials? In Nature Communications , a team of scientists led by TU Delft presents new insights into the complex nature of phase transitions in magnetic nanomaterials.
Physics - Materials Science - 12.03.2025

Tiny, individual, flexible ribbons of crystalline phosphorus discovered by UCL researchers in 2019 exhibit magnetic and semiconducting properties at room temperature, opening new possibilities for next-generation electronics, finds a new study involving members of the same team. The findings, published in the journal Nature , confirm the one-atom-thick ribbons, known as phosphorene nanoribbons, as a unique class of material that could enable more energy-efficient computing and unlock new quantum technologies.
Materials Science - Microtechnics - 11.03.2025

Researchers are working on artificial muscles that can keep up with the real thing. They have now developed a method of producing the soft and elastic, yet powerful structures using 3D printing. One day, these could be used in medicine or robotics - and anywhere else where things need to move at the touch of a button.
Health - Materials Science - 10.03.2025

A new way to measure male fertility has been discovered by researchers at the University of Waterloo, opening the door to the development of simple, inexpensive tests for clinical and at-home use. The research team combined expertise in sperm cell behaviour and interface science to determine that the movement of healthy sperm within semen reduces the force with which droplets stick to a water-repellent surface.
Physics - Materials Science - 10.03.2025

A team of researchers from Würzburg has for the first time experimentally demonstrated a quantum tornado. Electrons form vortices in the momentum space of the quantum semi-metal tantalum arsenide. Scientists have long known that electrons can form vortices in quantum materials. What's new is the proof that these tiny particles create tornado-like structures in momentum space - a finding that has now been confirmed experimentally.
Materials Science - Environment - 27.02.2025

Until now, old clothes have mainly been incinerated. Using adapted processes from paper production, it is possible to recover the cellulose fibres from used clothing and use them to produce cardboard and other packaging materials.
Physics - Materials Science - 20.02.2025

ISTA researchers 3D print high-performance, sustainable thermoelectric materials Rapid, localized heat management is essential for electronic devices and could have applications ranging from wearable materials to burn treatment. While so-called thermoelectric materials convert temperature differences to electrical voltage and vice versa, their efficiency is often limited, and their production is costly and wasteful.
Materials Science - History / Archeology - 19.02.2025

From a tiny electric jolt when touching a doorknob to styrofoam peanuts that cling to a mischievous cat's fur-the well-known and seemingly simple phenomenon of static electricity has puzzled people since antiquity. How could this ubiquitous effect, frequently demonstrated to bedazzled children by rubbing a balloon on their hair, still not be completely understood by scientists? Static electricity goes by multiple names, but scientists prefer to call it 'contact electrification'.
Innovation - Materials Science - 17.02.2025

Scientists at EPFL and the University of Southern Denmark have used holographic projections to bring unprecedented resolution to a light-based 3D printing technique. The method allows the fabrication of millimeter-scale objects within seconds using significantly less energy than previous approaches.
Physics - Materials Science - 03.02.2025

Breakthrough in materials research: an alloy of several metals has been developed that shows practically no thermal expansion over an extremely large temperature interval. Most metals expand when their temperature rises. The Eiffel Tower, for example, is around 10 to 15 centimetres taller in summer than in winter due to its thermal expansion.
Materials Science - 30.01.2025
Discovery of how to create identical oil lenses to study emulsions on fluid surfaces
A team of researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed an innovative technique that allows the production of regular oil lenses of uniform size on the surface of water in a simple and reproducible fashion. The technique will facilitate the study of the behaviour of oily substances dispersed on water surfaces.
Physics - Materials Science - 30.01.2025
The Pressure to Explore: Caltech Researchers Take First Experimental Steps Toward Lightsails that Could Reach Distant Star Systems
The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner known as the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative has been exploring the idea. The concept is to use lasers to propel miniature space probes attached to "lightsails" to reach ultrafast speeds and eventually our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri.
Health - Materials Science - 23.01.2025

Study Reveals for the First Time That Membrane Tension Regulates Cellular Repair One moment of carelessness and bang - you have cut your finger. It bleeds, but after a while the wound heals by itself. Every day, individual cells in our body also suffer "wounds" in their protective layer, the cell membrane, and have to repair them again.
Health - Apr 18
Throwing a 'spanner in the works' of our cells' machinery could help fight cancer, fatty liver disease... and hair loss
Throwing a 'spanner in the works' of our cells' machinery could help fight cancer, fatty liver disease... and hair loss
Health - Apr 17
Shelling out the facts: New RVC study reveals most common health disorders of tortoises in the UK
Shelling out the facts: New RVC study reveals most common health disorders of tortoises in the UK
Environment - Apr 17
A week dedicated to sustainability: 5th Sustainability Days on the TU Ilmenau campus
A week dedicated to sustainability: 5th Sustainability Days on the TU Ilmenau campus
Mathematics - Apr 17
Boys perform less well in secondary school than girls because of 'bad friends'door 'slechte vrienden'
Boys perform less well in secondary school than girls because of 'bad friends'door 'slechte vrienden'
Innovation - Apr 17
The University of Manchester and Amentum expand strategic partnership on world-changing technologies
The University of Manchester and Amentum expand strategic partnership on world-changing technologies

History - Apr 17
Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals
Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals

Computer Science - Apr 17
Blair Drummond research sniffs out new possibilities for animal-computer interaction
Blair Drummond research sniffs out new possibilities for animal-computer interaction
Computer Science - Apr 17
What keeps alternating current in sync when large power generators go offline?
What keeps alternating current in sync when large power generators go offline?

Career - Apr 16
CIVIS3i: Unique postdoctoral program strengthens collaboration and research in Europe
CIVIS3i: Unique postdoctoral program strengthens collaboration and research in Europe
Campus - EUR - Apr 16
Self-management at EUR: Bachelor's Degree in Psychology fully in Dutch and possibilities for tightening numeri fixi
Self-management at EUR: Bachelor's Degree in Psychology fully in Dutch and possibilities for tightening numeri fixi
Innovation - Apr 16
Rinaldi Family's gift powers Ontario Tech's new AI and Rehabilitation Research Chair
Rinaldi Family's gift powers Ontario Tech's new AI and Rehabilitation Research Chair

Life Sciences - Apr 15
University of Glasgow joins call for more 'joyful buildings' at Humanise Summit
University of Glasgow joins call for more 'joyful buildings' at Humanise Summit