Tag: Engineering

For every ton of ethylene created, one ton of carbon dioxide is produced. With more than 300 million tons of ethylene ...

At first glance, few materials would seem to have less in common than metals and textiles. And yet, by manufacturing nickel-titanium ...

A newly developed ceramic material shows record-high proton conductivity at intermediate temperatures while remaining chemically stable, report researchers from Japan. Efficient ...

Sodium-ion batteries (NIBs) are gaining traction as a next-generation technology to complement the widely used lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). NIBs offer clear ...

Wherever hydrogen is present, safety sensors are required to detect leaks and prevent the formation of flammable oxyhydrogen gas when hydrogen ...

Japan and California have embraced hydrogen fuel-cell technologies, a form of renewable energy that can be used in vehicles and for ...

Early in the 1969 film "Midnight Cowboy," Dustin Hoffman, playing the character of Ratso Rizzo, crosses a Manhattan street and angrily ...

Scientists have created a new type of material that could enable common electronic devices to work faster and use less energy, ...

Conventional lithium-ion batteries contain problematic substances such as nickel and cobalt, and the solvents used to coat the electrode materials are ...

Metamaterials—materials whose properties are primarily dictated by their internal microstructure, and not their chemical makeup—have been redefining the engineering materials space ...