A new coating for glass developed by Rice University researchers and collaborators could help reduce energy bills, especially ...

Coatings such as titanium nitride on biomedical implants can improve their performance. Whilst the substrate my be biocompatible, the coating may help to improve wear resistance and lubricity. This ...

Diamond has long been regarded as the practical and theoretical hardness champion and has found uses ranging from industrial abrasives to a girl's best friend. Cubic boron nitride, a synthetic ...

Just as carbon makes up both the brittle core of a No. 2 pencil and the harder-than-steel diamond in a cutting tool, boron nitride gives rise to compounds that can be soft or hard. Yet, unlike ...

Products are slowly appearing that replace silicon with gallium nitride, a material that promises to shrink technology down while making it more efficient. Verge Science takes a look inside one of ...

Boron Nitride Lends Itself to Smaller, Superior Electronics. When it comes to electronics, size does matter. Consumers want progressively tinier, slimmer products, ...