Whether it's electric vehicles, drones, or spacecraft, a common technical challenge for future transportation is ...

Tungsten, a metal known for its incredible strength and high melting point, is one of the most useful materials in ...

Korean engineers have built and operated a lightweight electric motor that uses uses carbon nanotubes (CNTs) instead of ...

A study explores a high-entropy alloy of Au, Ag, Cu, Pd, and Pt, evaluating its potential use in mid-infrared metasurfaces ...

Figure 3 is a basic list of metal conductivity. The precious metal, silver on top, like gold below copper, are pricey and often used only sparingly in applications like contacts. Though the other ...

Traditional materials either provide conductivity, as metals do, or flexibility, as seen in gels, but achieving both properties in a single material has been a difficult task. Researchers have ...

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That’s where detection technology becomes essential. This article provides an overview of common contaminants in meat and ...

The new approach, which was developed by physicists at Rice University in the US, attributes the unusually poor electrical conductivity of these metals to an increase in the quantum entanglement of ...