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In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin's Sophia Chen interviews Nima Rahbar of Worcester Polytechnic Institute on the use of an enzyme, carbonic anhydrase, that initiates self-healing in concrete. The enzyme catalyzes calcium in the cement to react with carbon dioxide from...
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Early Career Materials Researchers
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Velcro is an ingenious hook-and-loop fastener inspired by nature — specifically, cockleburs. Now scientists at the Italian Institute of Technology are returning the favor. They have created the first biodegradable Velcro —...
source: Ars Technica
By dispensing with color filters, sensors using metalenses could offer enhanced sensitivity. The researchers created metalens arrays by etching a wafer of silicon nitride into tiny posts that split incoming light. The posts then redirect the light onto pixels mounted below,...
source: Optics & Photonics News
The ultra-slippery nature of a two-dimensional material called magnetene could be down to quantum effects rather than the mechanics of physical layers sliding across each other, say researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada and Rice University in the US. The result...
source: Physics World
Mari Lundström of the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering discusses the history and future of metallurgy in the Tenured Professors' Installation Talks. Aalto University is celebrating its new tenured professors with popular talks by our new Associate...
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Crude oil extraction using steam, referred to as fracking, generates approximately 100 billion liters of wastewater per year. This wastewater is collected at elevated temperatures (80ºC or above) making cleaning it difficult due to...
source: Advanced Science News
IBM and Samsung Electronics have jointly announced a breakthrough in semiconductor design utilizing a new vertical transistor architecture that demonstrates a path to scaling beyond nanosheet, and has the potential to reduce energy usage by 85% compared to a scaled fin field-effect...
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Advancement of machine learning techniques has significantly improved the performance of automatic image understanding. Two researchers from Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University in Iran developed a deep learning method to help restore motifs...
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In this Snippet from the "Nano Matters" podcast, Ange-Therese Akono, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, discusses research she is pursuing to find alternatives to cement and ways...
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An experiment shows that errors in quantum computation can be repeatedly corrected on the fly. A research team used qubits made from single ytterbium ions held in an electromagnetic trap. The system allows each ion to be moved into proximity with any other ion to enable...
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