(Nanowerk Spotlight) Ceramics boast impressive strength and durability, but their inherent rigidity and brittleness have long hindered applications demanding flexibility, such as filters, sensors, ...

Recently, a research group led by Prof. WANG Zhenyang and ZHANG Shudong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a new type of ceramic fiber aerogels ...

PC makers have something new to sell you. With hardware becoming more standardized, laptops are now differentiating themselves with their materials.

The high-performance flexible PENG is designed based on branch-heterostructure fiber fillers. By combining signal processing circuit design and machine learning algorithms, a power grid transmission ...

Researchers from Henan University in China have reportedly developed a new type of ceramic fiber that can make piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENGs) much more powerful. According to reports, the new ...

The class of materials known as ceramic matrix composites, or CMCs, shows considerable promise for providing fracture-toughness values similar to those for metals such as cast iron. Two kinds of ...

The German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research (DITF, Denkendorf) comprise the largest textile research center in Europe. With more than 250 scientists and technicians, DITF cover the entire ...

In a ceremony with Alabama public officials, GE Aviation broke ground on two adjacent factories to mass-produce silicon carbide (SiC) materials used to manufacture ceramic matrix composite components ...