Synopsis: Materials: Classes of materials: Metals: Metal:


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However this method requires intensive postprocessing (transfer process) as it has to remove used metal after the manufacturing process

After it is done the metal has to be removed and graphene has to be transported to another board.


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While experiments reported in the paper were performed with silverhe most desirable metal because it is the most conductive,


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They demonstrated this process with several metals, including silver and platinum. And depending on the materials involved and the electric current,


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yet remarkably strong, structure down to the microscaleesigning a system that could be fabricated from a variety of materials, such as metals or polymers,


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The"consumption"of metals to metal ions is then so low that the coating can be effective for several years,


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when creating metals papers and even fluids. The researchers say the addition of the nanoparticles doesn't change how a material looks doesn't react with anything in it

The researchers claim their nanoparticle bar codes could be used with paper metals fluids and even drugs.


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but Pint and Westover are confident that the rules that govern the load-bearing character of their design will carry over to other materials, such as carbon nanotubes and lightweight porous metals like aluminum.


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#'3-D Painting'Sprays Metal To Repair Or Rebuild Machines Video#GE is showing off a new machine that sprays high-velocity metal powders at broken machines repairing damage in a few


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The MIT team thinks an all-liquid battery filled with searingly hot molten metals might be a good alternative.


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##$40 hidecell. compros Storing your phone in a metal-lined bag will eliminate surveillance possibilities by blocking cell-tower signals along with your Wi-fi GPS and Bluetooth connections.


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The current design uses a combination of hardened metal parts and rubber to reduce peak forces. 2d prototypeto validate the mechanics


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engineers design a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) circuit and can expect it to work.


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including plastics and metals. Simultaneously, the cost of 3-D printers has fallen sufficiently to make them household consumer items.


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or repelled by, a metal surface by changing the polarity of the voltage applied to the metal.

in turn, allows control over the rate of heat transfer between the metal and the liquid.


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This changed the metal's surface and made the gel adhere more closely to the metal PPPL was also involved with crucial tests of the material last summer,


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The PNNL study shows how to create particles with a similar reactivity to platinum that replace some of the platinum with Earth-abundant metals.

The result is a layer of bare nanoparticles made from two different metals that is free of capping layers, residual reactants,

Once the metals are locked into a vacuum chamber in the aggregation region argon gas is introduced. In the presence of a large voltage the argon becomes ionized

and vaporizes the metals through sputtering. The metal ions travel through a cooled region where they collide with each other

The conventional solution-based approach often results in clumps of the different metals rather than homogeneous nanoparticles with the desired shape.


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Lithium metal, for example, can store about 10 times as much energy per gram, but is extremely dangerous,


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including plastics and metals. Simultaneously, the cost of 3-D printers has fallen sufficiently to make them household consumer items.


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or repelled by, a metal surface by changing the polarity of the voltage applied to the metal.

in turn, allows control over the rate of heat transfer between the metal and the liquid.


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Scientists have discovered a new state of matter that appears to be an insulator, superconductor, metal and magnet all rolled into one.

Scientists have discovered a new state of matter that appears to be an insulator, superconductor, metal and magnet all rolled into one.


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and allow greater airflow than other artificial hearts made from metals and plastics. nstead of taking a bunch of nuts and bolts


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The process of manufacturing these metals involves additive manufacturing process modelling sensor network, and seamless process integration.

and they are made by using a laser to melt blown powder metal, which is deposited then layer by layer to manufacture a 3d printed object.

and more fracture resilience than regular metals because of the lack of pattern in their composition, so to speak.

While metals in their regular crystalline structure tend to break along lines of their cellular structure,

The hope is that it will be possible to create new materials with 10 times the strength of conventional metals,

which combine two metals that normally don fuse easily such as stainless steel and titanium or copper and steel.

FGMS in combining different types of metal, would result in new types of metals, possessing the traits and properties of both individual materials.

the metals would have to be combined and blended with other types of metal to ridge the gapso to speak.

The new material, which would possess the qualities of both copper and titanium, could be useful for constructing such things as aircraft or spaceship parts.

you can fuse two metals together easily. The research conducted by Dr. Liou, Dr. Sarangapani,


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and a 3d printer, any plastic and possibly ceramics or even metal (with binder jetting or future wire melting technologies) objects could be produced anywhere in the world.


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Just like something from science fictionhink of the Liquid-Metal robot assassin in the Terminator filmshese materials behave more like glass or plastic than metal.

While still being metals, they become as malleable as chewing gum when heated and can be molded easily

They are also three times stronger and harder than ordinary metals on average, and are among the toughest materials known. hey have been described as the most significant development in materials science

Most metals are crystalline when solid, with their atoms arranged in a highly organised and regular manner.


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and demand of rare-earth metals. he research group focused on three or four different catalytic reactions used in high production volume chemicals,

But rare-earth metals like cerium, which is as abundant as copper, are primary products of mining for other, more valuable rare-earth elements.

and reduce reliance on rare-earth metals and other materials critical to the success of clean energy technologies.


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Lithium metal, for example, can store about 10 times as much energy per gram, but is extremely dangerous,


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and humans. anoporous gold can be imagined as a porous metal sponge with pore sizes that are a thousand times smaller than the diameter of a human hair,


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and humans. anoporous gold can be imagined as a porous metal sponge with pore sizes that are a thousand times smaller than the diameter of a human hair,


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and fatigue has been a deadly disease for metals, "the researchers wrote.""We weaken the constraint of the substrate by making the interface between the Au (gold) nanomesh and PDMS slippery,


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So the ideal structure uses the antenna as one of the metals in the diode


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which differentiates it from conventional metals. This enables fabrication of smaller RRAM cells that have the capacity to store more data than conventional metal-based conductors.

The other two study papers were published in Nano Letters and Applied Physics Letters. In these studies, the teams led by Pop


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and is well below limits for metals put in place by the Environmental protection agency and World health organization. Dankovich nonprofit company page Drinking Paper, works together with the nonprofit WATERISLIFE


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A spokesperson for Imperial Metals was unavailable for comment. Karina Brino president of the Mining Association of British columbia, said her industry knew the investigation into the dam's collapse would inevitably mean regulatory


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#The metal that could lead to'indestructable'warships and ultralight cars Researchers have demonstrated a new type of metal

this is the first development of a lightweight metal matrix syntactic foam.''This new development of very light metal matrix composites can swing the pendulum back in favor of metallic materials,

'The ability of metals to withstand higher temperatures can be a huge advantage for these composites in engine and exhaust components, quite apart from structural parts.'

Significant efforts in recent years have focused on developing lightweight polymer matrix composites to replace heavier metal-based components in automobiles and marine vessels.


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Metals like lithium can store 10 times as much energy but are unstable and can often catch fire or short circuit.


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and oxygen, had an unusual property called the metal-to-insulator transition. In the metal state, electrons move freely,

In order to create a sharp metal-to-insulator transition, the ratio of vanadium to oxygen needs to be controlled precisely.

"The metal-to-insulator property of vanadium dioxide can ideally enhance state-of-the-art nonvolatile memories by using the material as an augmentation device,


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#Cyclic healing removes defects in metals while maintaining strength When designing a new material, whether for an airplane, car, bridge, mobile device,

or shakedown rows of atomic defects known as dislocations in the metal and move these dislocations closer to free surfaces in the sample.


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#From good to bad with a copper switch At the molecular level, the difference between Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde lies in a metal, copper.

According to a new SISSA study, the mechanism underlying this change is a metal, copper, or rather a particular region of the protein to which the metal binds,


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which is a theoretical model that describes the normal state of most metals at sufficiently low temperatures."


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while a relatively cheap metal, is not nearly as catalytically powerful as platinum, noted Professor of Chemistry Charles Sykes, Ph d.,one of the senior authors on the paper."

"The researchers first conducted surface science experiments to study precisely how platinum and copper metals mix."

"We were excited to find that the platinum metal dissolved in copper, just like sugar in hot coffee, all the way down to single atoms.

In the early 2000s, Maria's group had pioneered the single-atom approach for metals anchored on oxide supports as the exclusive active sites for the water-gas shift reaction to upgrade hydrogen streams for fuel cell use.


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"Not only are designed our facilities to work with all different sorts of materials from metals to oxides,


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At that point, a reflective metal layer is on the bottom.""In this structure--unlike other photodetectors--light absorption in an ultrathin silicon layer can be much more efficient


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Previous systems, like Aquasar, still relied on a metal transfer plate between the coolant flow and the CPU itself.


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which involved switching out gold metals used in manufacturing Gan devices for metals that were compatible with silicon fabrication,


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the various intermediary steps in the production process still require metals and produce waste.""The KU Leuven researchers developed a new technique by applying a petrochemical concept to biomass."

and without using metals. In addition, the production process is cheaper, because we can skip a step."


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Rare and expensive metals such as platinum can serve as effective catalysts, but in its work the team discovered that it could create a much cheaper,


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#Physicists discover a weird new form of matter A team of physicists has discovered an unusual form of matterot a conventional metal, insulator,


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#Tiny metal illarssurvive 1, 100 degrees Celsius Scientists have produced a thin film out of a new class of metal alloys that can survive very high temperatures and extreme pressures.


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Furthermore, the researchers point out that aluminum is a cheaper metal than lithium, and the aluminum-ion technology offers an environmentally friendly alternative to disposable AA


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He says ther metals have lower efficiency but higher thrust. So you would need more fuel to get to Mars,

but Neumann has achieved promising results with titanium, aluminium and other widely used metals. Spaceships using his drive might find capturing fuel made from a dead satellite a handy way to refuel,

Neumann says experiments with pulsed electric arcs on metals go back to the 1920s, and some of the data collected was useful to him in assessing


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Apple will use a more reinforced metal for the phone body the reports have indicated. That slightly larger body will have a smaller battery than the iphone 6, according to previous leaks.


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and tough like a metal. No one wants the aircraft engine that is holding them 35,000 feet above the earth to shatter like a vase.

Ceramic matrix composites can withstand temperatures 20 percent higher than these metals, and they are one-third the weight. or


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In new research, published in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Materials Chemistry A, they found that some metal-organic frameworks,


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or repelled by, a metal surface by changing the polarity of the voltage applied to the metal.

in turn, allows control over the rate of heat transfer between the metal and the liquid.


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#This company grows super-metals like trees A Seattle start-up called Modumetal could soon do for metal

The company has developed a revolutionary process for"growing"metal that can be likened to how trees grow, according to CEO and cofounder Christina Lomasney.

"plywood-like metals with custom-made properties that are superior to conventional materials due to their nano-level detail.

Corrosion resistance isn't the only super-trait of these metals. They can also be made stronger and lighter than steel,

and using metals like smelting, the Modumetal method requires only electricity. The company hopes its technique will usher in a new era


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and aluminum they could forge an ultra-strong, lightweight metal, but these advantages were always superseded by one major drawback:


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But in gas sensing applications, copper oxide was much less widely investigated compared to other metal oxide materials.


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But in gas sensing applications, copper oxide was much less widely investigated compared to other metal oxide materials.


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Lithium metal, for example, can store about 10 times as much energy per gram, but is extremely dangerous,


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and mechanical properties of MOFS compared to materials such as ceramics or metals, and have resulted in the past in structural collapse during postprocessing techniques such as sintering

raditional methods used in melt-casting of metals or sintering of ceramics cause the structural collapse of MOFS due to the structures thermally degrading at low temperatures.

The formation of glasses that contain highly interchangeable metal and organic components, in is highly unusual,

whereby different metals or organics are swapped into, or out of, the MOFS before melting o


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"Not only are designed our facilities to work with all different sorts of materials from metals to oxides,


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At that point, a reflective metal layer is on the bottom.""In this structure-unlike other photodetectors-light absorption in an ultrathin silicon layer can be much more efficient


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At that point, a reflective metal layer is on the bottom.""In this structure-unlike other photodetectors-light absorption in an ultrathin silicon layer can be much more efficient


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it becomes pure tantalum, a metal. The researchers determined three related factors give the memories their unique switching ability.


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'which are based on metals, polymers and organic materials, to tie the system together electronically. With our technology, we can take a razor-thin silicon integrated circuit, a few hundred nanometers thick,


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Rare and expensive metals such as platinum can serve as effective catalysts, but in its work the team discovered that it could create a much cheaper,


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The magnetic phase state at the edges of the antidots raised the metal-to-insulator phase transition temperature of the manganite film.


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"The waste material is free compared compared to all the metals and expensive organic chemicals needed in other processes-in my opinion this is a far easier way to go."


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based on UNSW Australia research that can predict for the first time which combinations of metals will best form these useful materials.

Just like something from science fiction-think of the Liquid-Metal Man robot assassin (T-1000) in the Terminator films-these materials behave more like glass or plastic than metal.

While still being metals, they become as malleable as chewing gum when heated and can be moulded easily

They are also three times stronger and harder than ordinary metals on average, and are among the toughest materials known."

Most metals are crystalline when solid, with their atoms arranged in a highly organised and regular manner.


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and fatigue has been a deadly disease for metals, "the researchers wrote.""We weaken the constraint of the substrate by making the interface between the Au (gold) nanomesh and PDMS slippery,


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because the optimum conditions for applying nanocomposite coating through electrophoretic method on metals are obtained at low particle size distributions s


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industrial-quality metal deposited on polymer sheets. First, an electronic mechanical cutter is used to form patterns on the metal-polymer sheets.


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some of the atoms in the anode--an electrically conductive metal like lithium--become ions that then travel to the cathode,


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"made of nanolayers of ferromagnetic material, superconductor and other metals. By changing the direction of magnetization it is possible to control the current in superconductor.


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while a relatively cheap metal, is not nearly as catalytically powerful as platinum, noted Professor of Chemistry Charles Sykes, Ph d.,one of the senior authors on the paper."

"The researchers first conducted surface science experiments to study precisely how platinum and copper metals mix."

"We were excited to find that the platinum metal dissolved in copper, just like sugar in hot coffee, all the way down to single atoms.

In the early 2000s, Maria's group had pioneered the single-atom approach for metals anchored on oxide supports as the exclusive active sites for the water-gas shift reaction to upgrade hydrogen streams for fuel cell use.


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Finding could have implications for high-temperature superconductivity A team of physicists led by Caltech's David Hsieh has discovered an unusual form of matter--not a conventional metal, insulator,


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"Long is the corresponding author of a Nature paper that describes this work entitled,"Methane storage in flexible metal-organic frameworks with intrinsic thermal management."


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#New metal-organic framework material captures carbon at half the energy cost UC Berkeley chemists have made a major leap forward in carbon-capture technology with a material that can

Diamine-Appended Metal-Organic Frameworks The diamine-appended metal-organic framework before and after binding of carbon dioxide.

MOFS are composites of metals--in this case magnesium or manganese--with organic compounds that, together, form a porous structure with microscopic, parallel channels.

Several years ago, Long and his lab colleagues developed a way to attach amines to the metals in an MOF to produce pores of sufficient diameter to allow CO2 to penetrate rapidly into the material.

The pressure at which CO2 binds to the amines can be adjusted by changing the metal in the MOF.


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#Artificial hand able to respond sensitively thanks to muscles made from smart metal wires Engineers at Saarland University have taken a leaf out of natures book by equipping an artificial hand with muscles made from shape-memory wire.


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There has been considerable recent work on using magnetite to clean up toxic metals. For example, magnetite can reduce the toxic form of chromium, chromium VI, to the less toxic chromium (III),


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In an experiment, recently published in Science("Probing Johnson noise and ballistic transport in normal metals with a single-spin qubit),


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because the metals have an incredibly high melting point. Instead of melting the metals to fuse them,

they are combined through a process called sintering which uses heat and/or pressure to join the small,


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ITBM, Nagoya University) Metal-catalyzed C-H borylation of aromatic rings is considered an efficient way to introduce functional groups to make functional molecules via a boryl moiety.


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#Lanthanide-organic framework nanothermometers prepared by spray-drying A work in Advanced Functional Materials shows how spray-drying prepared MOF nanoparticles containing lanthanide metals may be used as nanothermometers operative over a wide range of temperatures


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In this case, the researchers modified the carbon nanotubes with metal-containing compounds called metalloporphyrins, which contain a central metal atom bound to several nitrogen-containing rings.

Hemoglobin, which carries oxygen in the blood, is a metalloporphyrin with iron as the central atom.


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These atoms form a thin, molecular sandwich with the one metal and two chalcogenides, and depending on their fabrication method can exist in several slightly different shaped atomic arrangements.


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When the material is a metal, that spot also becomes very hot. The scientists have shown that the same effect can be achieved using their new silicon device, without the associated temperature increase and its unfortunate consequences.

"However the characteristics of metals that make them good at conducting electricity also lead to the undesirable heating effect,

"The cloud of free-moving electrons around a metal that carries an electrical current can also absorb passing photons.


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it becomes pure tantalum, a metal. The researchers determined three related factors give the memories their unique switching ability.


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"By'sandwiching'one or two atomic layers of a transition metal like titanium, between monoatomic layers of another metal, such as molybdenum,

"Anasori plans to make more materials by replacing titanium with other metals, such as vanadium, niobium,


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The mixture of two or more metals with very precise atomic structures and compositions as shown great promise for catalyzing many chemical and electrochemical reactions,

In the past, testing of mixed blends of metals has produced novel physical and chemical properties. owever the process is very time-consuming and costly to search for highly optimized alloysusing the conventional approaches, Achenie added.


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based on UNSW Australia research that can predict for the first time which combinations of metals will best form these useful materials.

Just like something from science fiction-think of the Liquid-Metal Man robot assassin (T-1000) in the Terminator films-these materials behave more like glass or plastic than metal.

While still being metals, they become as malleable as chewing gum when heated and can be moulded easily

They are also three times stronger and harder than ordinary metals on average, and are among the toughest materials known."

Most metals are crystalline when solid, with their atoms arranged in a highly organised and regular manner.


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potentially enabling the replacement of expensive and rare metals in fuel cells. The new catalyst is based carbon,


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and fatigue has been a deadly disease for metals, "the researchers wrote.""We weaken the constraint of the substrate by making the interface between the Au (gold) nanomesh and PDMS slippery,


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industrial-quality metal deposited on polymer sheets. First, an electronic mechanical cutter is used to form patterns on the metal-polymer sheets.


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when a nonmagnetic metal is used in such a measurement. n our experiment we can move a metallic tip over a surface with atomic-scale precision,


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("Metal/Polymer Based Stretchable Antenna for Constant Frequency Far-Field Communication in Wearable Electronics"."The paper will be the front cover article of the print edition.

The team's flexible and stretchable metal thin-film (copper) antenna for far-field communication up to 80 meters

"We fabricated our antenna using a metal/polymer bilayer process the resulting structure combines the conductivity of the metal

"That means that a metal thin film lateral spring structure cannot be used as a stretchable antenna,


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"Not only are designed our facilities to work with all different sorts of materials from metals to oxides,


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At that point, a reflective metal layer is on the bottom.""In this structure--unlike other photodetectors--light absorption in an ultrathin silicon layer can be much more efficient


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They manufactured the implant with a $1. 3 million metal printer at a government-run lab. The printer uses an electron beam to melt titanium powder,


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The material comprises a metal from the lanthanide group, also known as rare-earth elements, and a widely used polymer called polyethylene glycol, or PEG.


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#Terminator 2 like"smart liquid metal"developed by Tsinghua University researchers These diagrams from the Advanced Materials journal show stages of the Tsinghua University experiment,

The liquid metal is a mixture of gallium, indium and tin. It stays liquid at temperatures above-2 degrees Fahrenheit(-19 Celsius),

Its integrated power source is a flake of aluminum embed in the liquid metal; the aluminum reacts with the sodium hydroxide to release hydrogen gas,

while placing the aluminum in the liquid metal drop's rear creates differences in electrical charges across the liquid metal.

as the liquid metal physically adjusts itself to balance out the resulting differences in internal pressure.

Currently, a drop of liquid metal has enough power to move around for 30 minutes to an hour.

but self healing metals would have a lot of civilian and military applications. Liquid metal may be the first step in a new arms race.

In 2014, both Tsinghua University and North carolina State university discovered that applying electrical currents to gallium alloys (like the liquid metal) would allow for controlled shape-shifiting in the metal

(though they still needed an external power source). The liquid metal has been observed to not just to move on its own,

but also to squeeze into tight spaces as it moves forward (moving the aluminum component can change its direction).

Tsinghua's liquid metal is still a basic research project confined to the laboratories (not to mention vats of sodium hydroxide,

until they discover a way for the liquid metal to react with the atmosphere). The liquid metal could be used to build self contained pumps that don't require outside power or batteries, saving on weight and complexity for items like night vision and laser cooling pumps.

The ability of liquid metal with its own embedded power source could even one day be the basis to build self repairing armor on tanks and changing aircraft fuselages for fuel efficiency and speed.

If you really wanted to build a robot like Skynet's T-1000 Terminator out of shapeshifting metal at room temperature

(and we strongly advise against that), you'd need a substance like Tsinghua University's self powered liquid metal to avoid those embarrassing and inconvenient electrical cords.

More distantly Liu hopes that his invention would one day be used to build shapeshifting robots to repair pipelines and delivery medicine inside blood vessels.

But military engineers would also probably like to take a crack at turning liquid metal into shape shifting drones and robots, familiar to Terminator 2 fans as Skynet's T-1000.


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