Steve Zinkle will speak on “Materials for Nuclear Power Applications” at noon Tuesday, Jan. 13, to Friends of ORNL. His talk ...
Researchers have developed a new carbon-negative building material that could reshape approaches to sustainable construction.
US researchers have developed Enzymatic Structural Material (ESM), a carbon-negative alternative to concrete that ...
A newly designed robust mechanophore provides early warning against mechanical failure while resisting heat and UV, report ...
Due to global climate change, the frequency and intensity of wildfires is increasing. This poses severe problems for utility companies as both distribution and transmission lines are frequently routed ...
Nanostructured metamaterials have shown a lot of promise in what they can do in the lab, but often have fatal stress concentration factors that limit their applications. Researchers have now found a ...
Pollution caused by plastics and rubber has become an issue of global concern. Polymeric materials (plastics and rubbers) comprise a steadily increasing proportion of the municipal and industrial ...