Material Science

Bayer MaterialScience invests in technical centerPlastics News

LEVERKUSEN, GERMANY ‒ Bayer MaterialScience AG has unveiled its new premium foams technical center and commissioned a production plant for coating ...

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BAYER MATERIALSCIENCEPlasteurope

As part of an overall EUR 45m investment, Bayer MaterialScience (BMS, Leverkusen / Germany;www.bayerbms.com) has inaugurated a new EUR 10m ...

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The golden age of computational materials science gives me a ...Scientific American (blog)

I say all this because a very similar cover story about computational materials design in this month's Scientific American evokes disturbing feelings of déjà vu in ...

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The next frontier in innovation: It's a material worldVentureBeat

Material science majors, rejoice! Now is your time to shine. As people become more aware of how humans interact with the planet, it's becoming clear exactly ...

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Video: Fire ants' superpowers could inspire self-healing bridgesLos Angeles Times

“It's kind of between material science and modular robotics,” Hu said. “You study one ant, it's basically a robot. But then you combine them all together; it's not ...

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Popular Mechanics

Pitt engineers model self-repairing materialsUniversity of Pittsburgh The Pitt News

“This is one of the holy grails of materials science,” Balazs said in a press release. Currently, some materials are able to repair themselves locally by filling cuts ...

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NASA is creating “genius materials” on board ISSGeek

Smart materials are so yesterday, especially if you're at NASA. A material is usually classified as “smart” if it has been engineered for a specific purpose, rather ...

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Polymer gel, heal thyself: University of Pittsburgh engineering team ...Science Codex

"This is one of the holy grails of materials science," noted Dr. Balazs. "While others have developed materials that can mend small defects, there is no published ...

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FSU engineers net more than $1 million for materials researchPhys.Org

The material, buckypaper, is a feather-light sheet made of carbon nanotubes ... This Phys.orgScience News Wire page contains a press release issued by an ...

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