The second type involves small molecules where the acid-base pair exists within the same molecular structure, making it easier to adjust their reactivity by simply changing the surrounding components.

Aluminum oxide (Al2O3), also known as alumina, corundum, sapphire, or ruby, is one of the best insulators used in a wide ...

The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the ...

The porous structure of the flexible ceramic forms when the material is heat-treated at high temperatures. In fact, says Wiesner, this is the first material with such a symmetry and narrow pore ...

Presenting chemical similarities, the industry currently comprises five types of ceramic-type materials: glass, advanced ceramics, abrasives, cements and traditional ceramics.

Third, the organic–inorganic interpenetrating-domain-network structure of the elastic ceramic plastic provides a basis for combining paradoxical properties in one material, and materials with ...

They then placed the structures in shallow pools of the nutrient solution. As water in the ceramic evaporates, capillary action takes over, Kan says.

Spacecraft and nuclear reactors rely on ceramics that can withstand temperatures above 2,000 °C. But the traditional process to make these specialty ceramics requires heating the raw materials in ...

(Nanowerk News) Ceramics are not known for their flexibility: they tend to crack under stress. But researchers from MIT and Singapore have just found a way around that problem -- for very tiny objects ...

Here the use of ceramics and graphene for opening up new possibilities for bone-like materials is highlighted, where the integration of hierarchical structure, functionality, and chemical activity is ...

In the department „ceramic composite structures“ fibre reinforced ceramic materials as well as lightweight CMC (Ceramic Matrix Composite) structures for extreme applications have been developed since ...

The second type involves small molecules where the acid-base pair exists within the same molecular structure, making it easier to adjust their reactivity by simply changing the surrounding components.