A Rice team led by professors Matteo Pasquali and Angel Martí has simplified handling of the highly valuable nanotubes to make them more suitable for large-scale applications, including aerospace, ...

Chemists use their flash Joule heating process to synthesize 2D flakes of boron nitride and boron carbon nitride, highly valued for lending thermal and chemical stability to compounds. Rice University ...

(Nanowerk News) Very strong, light materials that can withstand extremely high temperatures could usher in next-generation spacecraft, enhance current devices or enable the development of new ...

Scientists create the first boron nitride nanotube fibers using the custom wet-spinning process they developed to make carbon nanotube fibers. Boron nitride nanotubes used to be hard to process, ...

Polymer nanocomposites are advanced materials with a polymer matrix reinforced with nanoscale fillers or additives. These fillers, typically nanoparticles, have at least one dimension less than 100 ...

Scientists in Australia have developed new ultra-thin filters that can separate valuable chemicals from liquid mixtures fast ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Moiré patterns occur everywhere. They are created by layering two similar but not identical geometric designs. A common example is the pattern that sometimes emerges when viewing a ...

Hydrogels are 3D networks of hydrophilic polymers that can absorb and retain large amounts of water due to physical or chemical cross-linking of individual polymer chains. However, poor mechanical ...

The world of quantum physics is mysterious. But what happens when that realm of subatomic particles is placed under immense pressure? A team led by physicists at Washington University in St. Louis has ...

Kevin Shumard is a chemistry doctoral student and lead author on a study published in Chemistry of Materials. HOUSTON – (Jan. 16, 2024) – Very strong, light materials that can withstand extremely high ...

Moiré patterns occur everywhere. They are created by layering two similar but not identical geometric designs. A common example is the pattern that sometimes emerges when viewing a chain-link fence ...