Scientists have pulled off a rare feat of watching platinum crystals grow inside liquid metal in real time, a process that ...

Nobody wants harmful bacteria colonizing the surfaces of objects such as medical implants, yet we also don't want them ...

Aluminum has long been treated as a workhorse metal, valued for its light weight and corrosion resistance rather than any ...

Researchers have created a metallic structure that is so hydrophobic, it refuses to sink - no matter how often it is forced into water or how much it is damaged or punctured. Possible applications ...

Although machine learning has been successful in many aspects, its application in crystal structure predictions and materials design is still under development. Recently, Prof. Jian Sun's group at the ...

An international team of researchers has transferred certain structural characteristics of natural enzymes, which ensure particularly high catalytic activity, to metallic nanoparticles. The desired ...

98.5% of the Sun is made up of two light chemical elements, hydrogen and helium, while the remaining 1.5% consists of other heavier elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The abundance of these ...

Close up of a water drop on a rose petal. Rose petals exhibit a property called superhydrophobicity, which is of interest to material scientists. Now, researchers at Iowa State University have managed ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract There is an increasing use of bonded composite doublers, both within the Department of Defense and the commercial aircraft repair community, ...