The magnetic properties of materials hold the key to major advances in technology.
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Liquid armour relies on the properties of materials called shear-thickening fluids.
By calculating the catalytic properties of materials on a computer, the group is learning what it is that makes other materials, such as copper zeolites, more effective under these conditions.
It is also important to make sure that operators of Explosive Detection Systems (EDS) and Trace Detection Systems (TDS) learn to identify specific X-ray transmission properties of the materials they are called upon to identify.
Nanosys, Inc. is an advanced material architect, harnessing the fundamental properties of inorganic materials into process ready systems that can integrate into existing manufacturing to produce vastly superior products in lighting, electronic displays, solar power and energy storage.
Such fields are everywhere, and the researchers suggest that their approach could be used for mapping electric fields on the surfaces of materials and getting a better understanding of their properties.
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They consist of two interlaced materials that have different optical properties in particular, different refractive indices, a measure of how much a substance bends light.
Researchers didn't think they could test minuscule samples of materials and grasp their properties.
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Nanophase materials, as they are sometimes called, will often display novel properties because of the very precise way in which their component particles have been arranged or shaped.
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Thousands of properties in Scotland date from before World War One and many desperately require repairs using traditional materials and techniques.
Along with titles to these properties comes Saudi Wahhabi influence in the form of virulently Shariah-adherent clerics, textbooks and other materials.
Pulickel Ajayan and his colleagues chemically optimised the recipe for each of their five layers, using blends of chemicals common in lithium-ion batteries as well as novel materials including carbon nanotubes - tiny "straws" of carbon with incredible electronic properties.
Unfortunately, these chains come in several varieties, and making useful materials from them requires that the amount of each variety in the mixture be controlled, as the properties of the resulting material depend on the proportions of its components.
Once they can manipulate atoms--which combine to form molecules, the building blocks of our natural world--scientists can create new building blocks that produce new materials with the exact properties they desire: smaller, stronger, tougher, lighter and more resilient than what has come before.
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