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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to
stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and
other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal increase in cost.
Moreover,...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of
energy and materials, according to a detailed MIT analysis of the energy use of
20 major manufacturing processes.
Overall, new manufacturing systems are...
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Location: California, United States
Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites to the nanoscale, where entirely new properties, not found...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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Location: Nanjing, China
A device that can bestow invisibility to an object by "cloaking" it from visual light is closer to reality. After being the first to demonstrate the feasibility of such a device by constructing a prototype in 2006, a team of Duke University...
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Location: Centre for Advanced Materials Technology, University of Sydney, Australia
Bulletproof jackets do not turn security...
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Location: University of Pennsylvania ,209 S. 33rd St. ,David Rittenhouse Lab, room 2N13B, United States
In the study, the researchers described the simultaneous self-balancing of as
many as 16 nanogaps using thin sheets of gold and FCE methodology originally
developed at Penn. Using electron-beam lithography, Penn researchers constructed...
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Location: Northwestern university,Technology Transfer Program
1800 Sherman Avenue - Suite 504,Evanston, IL 60201,Phone: (847)491-3005,Fax: (847)491-3625, United States
Researchers have developed a remarkably simple way to convert ordinary graphite particles into very thin but superstrong sheets that are tougher than steel and as flexible as carbon fiber but can be made much more cheaply. The discovery could...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180. (518) 276-6000, United States
As the electronics industry continues to churn
out smaller and slimmer portable devices, manufacturers have been challenged to
find new ways to combat the persistent problem of thermal management. New
research published in the March 19 issue...
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