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Pharmacology - Aug 3
World-first UK trial to assess whether cannabis-based drug could extend life for thousands with aggressive brain tumours
World-first UK trial to assess whether cannabis-based drug could extend life for thousands with aggressive brain tumours
Environment - Aug 3
Caltech Announces Breakthrough $100 Million Gift to Fund Space-based Solar Power Project
Caltech Announces Breakthrough $100 Million Gift to Fund Space-based Solar Power Project
Social Sciences - Aug 2
Opinion: Deporting 'foreign criminals' in the middle of the night doesn't make us safer
Opinion: Deporting 'foreign criminals' in the middle of the night doesn't make us safer
Criminology - Aug 2
Opinion: The London riots ten years on: how a crackdown on protest became their main legacy
Opinion: The London riots ten years on: how a crackdown on protest became their main legacy
Social Sciences - Aug 2
Computer security personnel need tools, training to assist survivors of intimate partner violence
Computer security personnel need tools, training to assist survivors of intimate partner violence
Life Sciences - Aug 2
Lake Huron sinkhole surprise: The rise of oxygen on early Earth linked to changing planetary rotation rate
Lake Huron sinkhole surprise: The rise of oxygen on early Earth linked to changing planetary rotation rate
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Physics - Materials Science - 13.10.2020 
Starting signal for FET Open projects: Visionary research on biocatalysts, nanostructures and ultrafast information processing
Over the next few years, work will be carried out at TU Graz on cell factories for industrial algae biotechnology, on a rapid prototyping approach for microand nanodevices and on new paradigms for ultra-fast information processing.
Materials Science - Event - 09.10.2020
Physics - Materials Science - 09.10.2020
Materials Science - Physics - 08.10.2020
Event - Materials Science - 05.10.2020
Innovation - Materials Science - 03.10.2020
Physics - Materials Science - 03.10.2020 
Leti and Partners in PiezoMAT Project Develop New Fingerprint Technology For Highly Reliable Security and ID Applications
L eti today announced that the European R&D project known as PiezoMAT has developed a pressure-based fingerprint sensor that enables resolution more than twice as high as currently required by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Materials Science - 25.09.2020
Physics - Materials Science - 21.09.2020 
Mirror-like photovoltaics get more electricity out of heat
New heat-harnessing "solar” cells that reflect 99% of the energy they can't convert to electricity could help bring down the price of storing renewable energy as heat, as well as harvesting waste heat from exhaust pipes and chimneys.
Campus - Materials Science - 17.09.2020
Physics - Materials Science - 17.09.2020
Materials Science - Physics - 16.09.2020 
Building materials like insect exoskeletons
Chitin is the main component of the exoskeletons of insects, spiders, and crustaceans and ensures, for example, that an insect exoskeleton is both robust and flexible.
Health - Materials Science - 15.09.2020
Environment - Materials Science - 11.09.2020
Materials Science - Innovation - 09.09.2020
Environment - Materials Science - 08.09.2020 
"Do microplastics belong in our environment? No!"
Process Engineer Adriano Joss from Eawag water research institute has been working for many years on wastewater treatment plants and the removal of micropollutants from water.
Materials Science - Environment - 08.09.2020 
Plastic can be sustainable
Jena research group receives two million euros to research intelligent, recyclable plastic materials Sustainable plastics that have the ability for self-healing, have intelligent properties and can
Research Management - Materials Science - 03.09.2020 
Two Empa researchers receive ERC Starting Grant
Two talented young researchers at Empa will be given the opportunity to develop their own research area over a five-year period with the help of an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Counc
Environment - Materials Science - 03.09.2020
Materials Science - Chemistry - 02.09.2020
Materials Science - 31.08.2020 
BATTERY 2030+ starts Next Phase towards a Green Society
The European research initiative on Future Battery Technologies, BATTERY 2030+, starts the next phase to develop high-performance batteries for a climate-neutral society.
Materials Science - Health - 26.08.2020
Physics - Materials Science - 24.08.2020 
Rice’s RAMBO-II: A sequel better than the original
First-of-its-kind spectrometer is getting stronger magnets, wider range of lasers Rice's RAMBO-II is the rare sequel that promises to be better than the original.
Physics - Materials Science - 24.08.2020
Economics / Business - Materials Science - 24.08.2020 
Binding carbon dioxide using broken concrete
Thanks to technology from ETH spin-off Neustark, concrete recycling plants can store carbon dioxide over the long term.
Materials Science - Physics - 18.08.2020 
How Can Heat Be Used Effectively?
In many areas of technology, heat is perceived as an undesirable "by-product".
Materials Science - 17.08.2020 
Plastic-free construction
The University of Stuttgart is a research and development partner in the new plastic-free building cooperation network "Gebäude O.K.
Materials Science - 13.08.2020
Materials Science - Environment - 13.08.2020 
New solar cells for space
Perovskite and organic solar cells prove successful on a rocket flight in space Almost all satellites are powered by solar cells - but solar cells are heavy. While conventional high-performance cells reach up to three watts of electricity per gram, perovskite and organic hybrid cells could provide up to ten times that amount.
Materials Science - Physics - 12.08.2020 
Why nanomaterial quality matters, and the smart new way to check it
A new way to check the quality of nanomaterials like graphene has emerged from a team at the University of Sussex.
Materials Science - 06.08.2020 
Why shaving dulls even the sharpest of razors
Human hair is 50 times softer than steel, yet it can chip away a razor's edge, a new study shows. Razors, scalpels, and knives are commonly made from stainless steel, honed to a razor-sharp edge and coated with even harder materials such as diamond-like carbon.
Materials Science - 05.08.2020
Economics / Business - Materials Science - 04.08.2020
Computer Science - Materials Science - 31.07.2020
Materials Science - 30.07.2020
Innovation - Materials Science - 27.07.2020 
Innovative fibre-composite building elements are put into practice
Texoversum, an education, research and innovation centre for the cross-cutting technology of textiles, is being established on the campus of Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences.
Physics - Materials Science - 24.07.2020
Environment - Materials Science - 20.07.2020 
Better wastewater treatment? It’s a wrap
Rice's trap-and-zap strategy for antibiotic resistant bugs becomes wrap, trap and zap A shield of graphene helps particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and free-floating antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants. Think of the new strategy developed at Rice University as "wrap, trap and zap." The labs of Rice environmental scientist Pedro Alvarez and Yalei Zhang, a professor of environmental engineering at Tongji University, Shanghai, introduced microspheres wrapped in graphene oxide in the Elsevier journal Water Research.
Materials Science - 20.07.2020
Materials Science - Environment - 17.07.2020 
Fluorine recycling for lithium-ion batteries
Lithium-ion batteries contain salts rich in fluorine, which decompose in humid air to toxic, highly corrosive hydrogen fluoride. The hazardous nature of this substance makes recycling more difficult and more expensive. A research project entitled "Fluoribat" is now being launched at Empa to solve this problem.
Physics - Materials Science - 15.07.2020
Materials Science - Environment - 13.07.2020
Physics - Materials Science - 12.07.2020 
A wizard of ultrasharp imaging
To oversee its new cutting-edge electron microscopy systems, MIT sought out Frances Ross' industry-honed expertise.
Materials Science - 10.07.2020 
The battery of the future: intelligent, sustainable, powerful
Federal government to fund three competency clusters with TUM involvement The battery is regarded as a key technology in such sectors as transportation and energy.
Materials Science - Life Sciences - 09.07.2020
Materials Science - Career - 09.07.2020
Materials Science - Environment - 08.07.2020 
Printed coatings enable more efficient solar cells
Researchers at Cambridge, Imperial and Singapore have developed a method to print ultrathin coatings on next-generation solar cells, allowing them to work in tandem with silicon solar cells to boost efficiencies. Photovoltaics, or solar cells, work by absorbing sunlight to produce clean electricity. But photovoltaics can absorb only a fraction of the solar spectrum, which limits their efficiencies.
Physics - Materials Science - 07.07.2020
Electroengineering - Materials Science - 06.07.2020 
Making plastic more transparent while also adding electrical conductivity
Share on: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn In an effort to improve large touchscreens, LED light panels and window-mounted infrared solar cells, researchers at the University of Michigan have made plastic conductive while also making it more transparent. They provide a recipe to help other researchers find the best balance between conductivity and transparency by creating a three-layer anti-reflection surface.
Materials Science - Innovation - 03.07.2020
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Over the next few years, work will be carried out at TU Graz on cell factories for industrial algae biotechnology, on a rapid prototyping approach for microand nanodevices and on new paradigms for ultra-fast information processing.
Nobel Laureate Helps Celebrate Launch of Institute for Materials Discovery and Design
Stanley Whittingham was one of the recipients of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on Lithium ion batteries.
Stanley Whittingham was one of the recipients of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on Lithium ion batteries.
Black Legacies in STEM exhibition launches today
To celebrate Black History Month 2020, an exhibition curated by Africans in STEM entitled 'Past & Present: Black Legacies in STEM' launches online today (5 October).
To celebrate Black History Month 2020, an exhibition curated by Africans in STEM entitled 'Past & Present: Black Legacies in STEM' launches online today (5 October).
L eti today announced that the European R&D project known as PiezoMAT has developed a pressure-based fingerprint sensor that enables resolution more than twice as high as currently required by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
New heat-harnessing "solar” cells that reflect 99% of the energy they can't convert to electricity could help bring down the price of storing renewable energy as heat, as well as harvesting waste heat from exhaust pipes and chimneys.
Researchers working to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 on high-touch metallic surfaces
McGill University professor Stephen Yue and Dr. Chen Liang, a researcher at the McGill AIDS Centre and Lady Davis Institute, received an NSERC Alliance COVID-19 grant to produce a cost-effective, production-ready antiviral coating that could significantly reduce the rate of SARS-CoV-2 transmission on high-touch metallic surfaces in public spaces such as schools, office buildings, and clinics.
McGill University professor Stephen Yue and Dr. Chen Liang, a researcher at the McGill AIDS Centre and Lady Davis Institute, received an NSERC Alliance COVID-19 grant to produce a cost-effective, production-ready antiviral coating that could significantly reduce the rate of SARS-CoV-2 transmission on high-touch metallic surfaces in public spaces such as schools, office buildings, and clinics.
CSC develops sensors for micro-defects
Sensors which detect micro-defects in materials are being developed by the Compound Semiconductor Centre - Cardiff University's joint venture with IQE.
Sensors which detect micro-defects in materials are being developed by the Compound Semiconductor Centre - Cardiff University's joint venture with IQE.
Chitin is the main component of the exoskeletons of insects, spiders, and crustaceans and ensures, for example, that an insect exoskeleton is both robust and flexible.
Digital 3D models of London chart path to lower emissions
An interactive 3D map of London that grades the energy efficiency of more than 3.5 million properties has been built by UCL researchers for the Greater London Authority (GLA) to inform efforts in tackling fuel poverty and reducing carbon emissions.
An interactive 3D map of London that grades the energy efficiency of more than 3.5 million properties has been built by UCL researchers for the Greater London Authority (GLA) to inform efforts in tackling fuel poverty and reducing carbon emissions.
Process Engineer Adriano Joss from Eawag water research institute has been working for many years on wastewater treatment plants and the removal of micropollutants from water.
Jena research group receives two million euros to research intelligent, recyclable plastic materials Sustainable plastics that have the ability for self-healing, have intelligent properties and can
Two talented young researchers at Empa will be given the opportunity to develop their own research area over a five-year period with the help of an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Counc
The European research initiative on Future Battery Technologies, BATTERY 2030+, starts the next phase to develop high-performance batteries for a climate-neutral society.
UW experts design masks for campus from scratch
Students and staff returning to the University of Wisconsin-Madison can protect each other from COVID-19 with masks designed by the university's experts in textiles, filtration and infectious disease, and made by one of Wisconsin's oldest companies.
Students and staff returning to the University of Wisconsin-Madison can protect each other from COVID-19 with masks designed by the university's experts in textiles, filtration and infectious disease, and made by one of Wisconsin's oldest companies.
First-of-its-kind spectrometer is getting stronger magnets, wider range of lasers Rice's RAMBO-II is the rare sequel that promises to be better than the original.
Upgraded cleanroom facilities will give UCLA advanced nanofabrication capabilities
UCLA's high-tech capabilities for creating atomically tiny devices and materials are undergoing a multimillion-dollar upgrade.
UCLA's high-tech capabilities for creating atomically tiny devices and materials are undergoing a multimillion-dollar upgrade.
Thanks to technology from ETH spin-off Neustark, concrete recycling plants can store carbon dioxide over the long term.
In many areas of technology, heat is perceived as an undesirable "by-product".
The University of Stuttgart is a research and development partner in the new plastic-free building cooperation network "Gebäude O.K.
Coffee stains inspire new printing technique
Have you ever spilled your coffee on your desk? You may then have observed one of the most puzzling phenomena of fluid mechanics - the coffee-ring effect.
Have you ever spilled your coffee on your desk? You may then have observed one of the most puzzling phenomena of fluid mechanics - the coffee-ring effect.
Perovskite and organic solar cells prove successful on a rocket flight in space Almost all satellites are powered by solar cells - but solar cells are heavy. While conventional high-performance cells reach up to three watts of electricity per gram, perovskite and organic hybrid cells could provide up to ten times that amount.
A new way to check the quality of nanomaterials like graphene has emerged from a team at the University of Sussex.
Human hair is 50 times softer than steel, yet it can chip away a razor's edge, a new study shows. Razors, scalpels, and knives are commonly made from stainless steel, honed to a razor-sharp edge and coated with even harder materials such as diamond-like carbon.
Texoversum, an education, research and innovation centre for the cross-cutting technology of textiles, is being established on the campus of Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences.
Argonne breaks ground on $815 million upgrade to X-ray facility
Leaders from the U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago broke ground July 22 on the future of X-ray science in the U.S. The s
Leaders from the U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago broke ground July 22 on the future of X-ray science in the U.S. The s
Rice's trap-and-zap strategy for antibiotic resistant bugs becomes wrap, trap and zap A shield of graphene helps particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and free-floating antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants. Think of the new strategy developed at Rice University as "wrap, trap and zap." The labs of Rice environmental scientist Pedro Alvarez and Yalei Zhang, a professor of environmental engineering at Tongji University, Shanghai, introduced microspheres wrapped in graphene oxide in the Elsevier journal Water Research.
Lithium-ion batteries contain salts rich in fluorine, which decompose in humid air to toxic, highly corrosive hydrogen fluoride. The hazardous nature of this substance makes recycling more difficult and more expensive. A research project entitled "Fluoribat" is now being launched at Empa to solve this problem.
Superconducting Twisted Bilayer Graphene-Magic not Needed?
At a Glance Leadership President Provost Board of Trustees Legacy History & Milestones Historic Awards & Honors Caltech Archives Interactive History Map News Publications This is Caltech Calt
At a Glance Leadership President Provost Board of Trustees Legacy History & Milestones Historic Awards & Honors Caltech Archives Interactive History Map News Publications This is Caltech Calt
Merging solar cell and liquid battery produces efficient, long-lasting solar storage
Schematic illustration of an integrated solar flow battery. A solar cell (in green) is hooked up to tanks of chemicals (in red and blue) that can store electricity for later use. Wenjie Li Chemists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their collaborators have created a highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow battery, a way to generate, store and redeliver renewable electricity from the sun in one device.
Schematic illustration of an integrated solar flow battery. A solar cell (in green) is hooked up to tanks of chemicals (in red and blue) that can store electricity for later use. Wenjie Li Chemists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their collaborators have created a highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow battery, a way to generate, store and redeliver renewable electricity from the sun in one device.
To oversee its new cutting-edge electron microscopy systems, MIT sought out Frances Ross' industry-honed expertise.
Federal government to fund three competency clusters with TUM involvement The battery is regarded as a key technology in such sectors as transportation and energy.
$18M Boost to Materials Science Research at UC San Diego
Students and faculty will shape the nanoand bio-materials that will make life better, healthier and safer The UC San Diego MRSEC center provides sustained research and educational opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students, with a particular focus on transfer students.
Students and faculty will shape the nanoand bio-materials that will make life better, healthier and safer The UC San Diego MRSEC center provides sustained research and educational opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students, with a particular focus on transfer students.
Researchers at Cambridge, Imperial and Singapore have developed a method to print ultrathin coatings on next-generation solar cells, allowing them to work in tandem with silicon solar cells to boost efficiencies. Photovoltaics, or solar cells, work by absorbing sunlight to produce clean electricity. But photovoltaics can absorb only a fraction of the solar spectrum, which limits their efficiencies.
Share on: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn In an effort to improve large touchscreens, LED light panels and window-mounted infrared solar cells, researchers at the University of Michigan have made plastic conductive while also making it more transparent. They provide a recipe to help other researchers find the best balance between conductivity and transparency by creating a three-layer anti-reflection surface.
News in Brief
Pharmacology - Aug 3
World-first UK trial to assess whether cannabis-based drug could extend life for thousands with aggressive brain tumours
World-first UK trial to assess whether cannabis-based drug could extend life for thousands with aggressive brain tumours
Environment - Aug 3
Caltech Announces Breakthrough $100 Million Gift to Fund Space-based Solar Power Project
Caltech Announces Breakthrough $100 Million Gift to Fund Space-based Solar Power Project
Social Sciences - Aug 2
Opinion: Deporting 'foreign criminals' in the middle of the night doesn't make us safer
Opinion: Deporting 'foreign criminals' in the middle of the night doesn't make us safer
Criminology - Aug 2
Opinion: The London riots ten years on: how a crackdown on protest became their main legacy
Opinion: The London riots ten years on: how a crackdown on protest became their main legacy
Social Sciences - Aug 2
Computer security personnel need tools, training to assist survivors of intimate partner violence
Computer security personnel need tools, training to assist survivors of intimate partner violence
Life Sciences - Aug 2
Lake Huron sinkhole surprise: The rise of oxygen on early Earth linked to changing planetary rotation rate
Lake Huron sinkhole surprise: The rise of oxygen on early Earth linked to changing planetary rotation rate