America’s Waste Could Become Its Rare Earth Lifeline
What if the materials holding up advanced manufacturing were already sitting in landfills, ash ponds, scrapyards, and old mine waste?…
Materials & Manufacturing
Pressed Silk Could Replace Wood and Challenge Kevlar
Silk is traditionally considered either a fiber used in textiles or a biomedical scaffold but not a structural solid with…
Trinity Test Glass Hid a Crystal Modern Labs Still Cannot Make
More than 80 years after the Trinity test transformed desert sand and vaporized metals into glass, the site continues to…
New Perovskite Solar Cell Fix Pushes Efficiency and Lifetime Higher
What has stopped the perovskite solar cell from exiting the confines of scientific laboratories and becoming a viable choice for…
Rice Material Boosts Electric Control 100-Fold for Cooler Computing
It has served silicon well, but the electricity bill might finally be catching up with it. At Rice University, scientists…
Algae Roads Could Slash Asphalt Fumes and Survive Winter Better
What if one of the most environmentally unfriendly materials in modern cities’ urban planning could be rebuilt using algal bio-binders?…
Tiny Interface Flaw Could Stall 2D Chip Scaling
Is it possible for a space smaller than a hydrogen atom to jeopardize the creation of the next generation of…
Why Battery Materials Shift, Crack, and Wear Out Faster
People have assumed that these particles just sit there and slowly degrade, the researcher said. What we found instead is…
Scientists Found a Stress Limit Where Liquids Snap
Liquids were not supposed to do this. A team of scientists from Drexel University has shown that if the stretching…