Materials
Inventing self-repairing batteries
16 Jan 2012
Graphene reveals its magnetic personality
09 Jan 2012
“Nanowiggles:” Graphene nanomaterials with tunable functionality in electronics
05 Jan 2012
Graphitic nanoribbons can be segmented into several different surface structures called nanowiggles. Each of these structures produces highly different magnetic and conductive properties
New biomaterial film coatings from whey found commercially viable
03 Jan 2012
Convenience foods are growing in popularity, and the food they contain is usually protected by films based on petrochemicals. Now researchers have not only developed a biomaterial from whey protein, they have also come up with a commercially viable method of producing multifunctional films on an industrial scale.
Researchers develop paint-on solar cells
29 Dec 2011
Not only invisible, but also inaudible
22 Dec 2011
Progress of metamaterials in nanotechnologies has made the invisibility cloak, a subject of mythology and science fiction, a reality as researchers transfer the concept of an optical invisibility cloak to sound waves
Self-healing electronics could work longer and reduce waste
22 Dec 2011
When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip – or even the whole device – is a loss. But what if it could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the user never knew there was a problem?
New tool helps revolutionise materials research
By By David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | 20 Dec 2011
Chemists propose explanation for superconductivity at high temperatures
By By Kimm Fesenmaier | 15 Dec 2011
Researchers explain granular material properties
By By Susan Chaityn Lebovits | 15 Dec 2011
CERN scientists find further signs of `God particle’ Higgs boson
13 Dec 2011
The data while sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, is not enough to make any conclusive statement on its existence, CERN said
Glass that cleans itself
09 Dec 2011
Researchers link patterns seen in spider silk, melodies
By By Denise Brehm, civil and environmental engineeri | 09 Dec 2011
Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a scientifically rigorous analogy that shows the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure of a melody, proving that the structure of each relates to its function in an equivalent way
New elemental cookbook guides efficient thermoelectric combinations
By by Richard Merritt | 08 Dec 2011
Making future buildings safer
06 Dec 2011
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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