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Metallic Glass: Material Of The Future?
March 30, 1998 — Say "glass" and most people think of window panes. But metals can also form glasses, materials that can be useful in electric transformers, golf clubs and many other products. A Johns Hopkins ... > full story -
Liquid Crystals Light Up Simple Chemical Test
March 30, 1998 — An ingenious new use for liquid crystal displays being developed at the University of California, Davis, might one day make complex chemical analyses almost as easy as checking the time on your ... > full story -
Paint Changes Color To Reveal Corrosion On Aircraft
March 30, 1998 — Researchers at Ohio State University are developing an early warning system for aircraft degradation -- paint that changes color when the metal beneath it begins to ... > full story -
Wee Objects Dwarf All Previous Self-Assembled Molecules
March 24, 1998 — They're tiny, invisible to the naked eye. Yet they tower over their counterparts in the molecular world. The three-dimensional objects created by two University of Rochester engineers are the ... > full story -
Seeking Perfection: Cornell Researcher Aims To Make Mirror Surfaces With Nary An Atom Exposed
March 23, 1998 — Melissa Hines is a researcher in search of perfection. Her goal is a mirror surface on which not even a single atom is protruding above the surface. ... > full story -
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Robot That Chews Asbestos Off Of Pipes
March 20, 1998 — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, working under a $2 million contract from the Department of Energy's (DoE) Federal Energy Technology Center (FETC) in ... > full story -
New Materials Show Promise For Coatings, Membranes, Drug Delivery
March 19, 1998 — Purdue University researchers have developed a new class of materials that has a wide variety of potential applications, from a coating to repel liquids to a membrane that could be used in wastewater ... > full story -
USC Robot Moves Molecule-Size Particles Into Precise Locations
March 17, 1998 — In very small but hugely significant print, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Southern California's Laboratory for Molecular Robotics has boldly placed USC on the ... > full story -
Future Jet Engines May Be Plastic, Researchers Say
March 12, 1998 — The jet engine of the future could be made of materials that are more like plastics than steel, if studies at the University of Missouri-Rolla find that these new materials can hold up under extreme ... > full story -
Electron Experiment Holds Promise For Electronics Industry
March 11, 1998 — A recent experiment in which the movements of electrons between a conductor and an insulator were recorded on a femtosecond (a millionth of a billionth of a second) time-scale holds promise for the ... > full story -
Nanotech Scanning Tunneling Microscope Probe Array For Data Storage
March 10, 1998 — Researchers who work with the incredibly small have long used the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to make pictures of surfaces with such precision that individual atoms appear as bumps. With it, ... > full story -
Scientific Glassblowers At Umass Combine High-Tech World With Ancient Art
March 10, 1998 — Larry Williams helps make modern, high-tech research possible at the University of Massachusetts by practicing a centuries-old craft: glassblowing. Williams is the University's master scientific ... > full story
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