In a groundbreaking new study, experts managed to develop a form of boron carbide that can be used as a nanocomposite, and woven into a fabric alongside cotton fibers. The material, which is the third strongest on the face of the planet, is both incredibly strong and very flexible, and researchers are hopeful that th... |
17 March 2010
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, the NASA Langley Research Center, and the National Institute of Aerospace have recently announced the development of a new class of materials. Boron-nitride yarns are threads of interlocking fibers at the nanoscale ... |
3 December 2009
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The periodic table of the chemical elements is a tabular method of displaying the chemical elements, devised by the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. Mendeleev intended the table to illustrate recurring ("periodic") trends in the properties of the elements. The layout of the table has been refined and exten... |
25 April 2007
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The fullerenes, discovered in 1985 by researchers at Rice University, are a family of carbon allotropes named after Richard Buckminster Fuller and are sometimes called buckyballs. They are molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube. Cylindrical fullerenes are called Car... |
24 April 2007
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The power of Superman is at our reach. Kryptonite, the green mineral that sapped the hero's power when exposed to it, has turned from fiction to reality, as a similar one has just been discovered by a team from the mining group Rio Tinto in a Serbian mine. "The real mineral is white and harmless. (...) it'... |
24 April 2007
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