PITTSBURGH (December 20, 2018) ... Tungsten carbide is one of the most versatile metal compounds and is renowned for its durability and strength, making it perfect for cutting tools, boring machines, ...

Silicon carbide is a semiconductor that consists of silicon and carbon, and is the third hardest material in the world; the use of this advanced material via 3D printing for applications such as ...

Within the nuclear sciences, including fuel production and nuclear medicine (radiopharmaceuticals), often specific isotopes have to be produced as efficiently as possible, or allow for the formation ...

The generation of clean and sustainable hydrogen fuel through water splitting demands efficient and robust earth-abundant catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). A new hybrid, which was ...

It's a new type of nuclear reactor core. And the materials that will make it up are novel -- products of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's advanced materials and manufacturing technologies. With a tight ...