Materials
Lightweight construction on the way to volume production
23 Apr 2012
To make lightweight cars and airplanes it is necessary to use as many of the components as possible using carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics CRP, which until now, have been made by hand. Now an automated production methods suitable for volume production may be possible
Probing hydrogen under extreme conditions
13 Apr 2012
Hybrid copper-gold nanoparticles convert CO2
By Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office | 11 Apr 2012
Research by MIT suggests copper-gold nanoparticles may reduce greenhouse gas emissions and turn carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels with relatively little energy
Single atom alloys catalyse reactions
By by Tim Palucka | 10 Apr 2012
Seeing the music in nature
04 Apr 2012
Detecting material defects in ship propellers
03 Apr 2012
Shooting at ceramics
02 Apr 2012
Copper-based materials show strange spin states
31 Mar 2012
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