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After taking off in July in Arizona, USA, Zephyr S logged a maiden flight of over 25 days, the longest duration flight ever made. An application has been made to establish this as a new world record. This maiden flight … Weiterlesen …

One of the main features of additive manufacturing processes such as 3D-printing is that the complexity of the component shapes it produces, is virtually unlimited. However, high surface quality in metallic components can frequently be achieved only via milling or … Weiterlesen …

It’s a whole new way of thinking about sensors. The tiny fibers developed at the Swiss university in Lausanne École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are made of elastomer and can incorporate materials like electrodes and nanocomposite polymers. The fibers can detect … Weiterlesen …

Liquid Crystals, already widely used in flat-screen TVs, are materials that are in a state between solid and liquid. Prof Jan Lagerwall and his team at the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit (PHYMS) at the University of Luxembourg have been investigating … Weiterlesen …

“This bottom-up approach to device fabrication will push the boundaries of additive manufacturing like never before,“ predicts Dr Victor Sans Sangorrin, University of Nottingham Faculty of Engineering. „Using a unique integrated design approach, we have demonstrated functional synergy between photochromic molecules and … Weiterlesen …

Physicists, chemists, and materials scientists have been probing the nature of layered magnetic materials for several decades, searching for clues to the properties of these materials that are more complex than they appear. From a distance, it looks like a … Weiterlesen …

Northwestern University’s Jiaxing Huang used an inexpensive solvent called cresol – a common chemical that was once used in household cleaners. He has discovered a way to make disperse carbon nanotubes at unprecedentedly high concentrations without the need for additives or harsh chemical … Weiterlesen …

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser system has set a new record, firing 2.15 megajoules (MJ) of energy to its target chamber — a 15 % improvement over NIF’s design specification of 1.8 MJ, and more … Weiterlesen …

It almost looks like chocolate, but this is aerogel: solid, highly porous material with low density and low thermal conductivity. Still, the production of pure lignin aerogels is not possible. A team led by the Professor Irina Smirnova from the Technical … Weiterlesen …

The squishy solids look and feel something like a child’s toy but offer new possibilities for energy storage and flexible electronic sensor applications, according to James Tour, chemist at Rice University. The technique is an extension of groundbreaking work by the Tour lab … Weiterlesen …