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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: North Carolina, United States
A new light-bending material has brought scientists one step closer to creating
a cloaking device that could hide objects from sight.
Beyond possible military applications, it also might have a very practical use
by making mobile...
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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: National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
Guest researcher John Jendzurski prepares the NIST electromagnetic phantom for passage through the walk-through metal detector behind it. The carbon-polymer blocks of the phantom are arranged in a form that simulates the mass and height of the...
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Location: West Lafayette, United States
Materials engineers have created a new type of membrane that separates oil from water and, if perfected, might be used for environmental cleanup, water purification and industrial applications.
The new technology would last longer than...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
As computers become more complex, the demand increases for more connections
between computer chips and external circuitry such as a motherboard or wireless
card. And as the integrated circuits become more advanced, maximizing their...
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