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Origami-inspired materials could soften the blow for reusable spacecraft

27.05.2019 | University of Washington | www.washington.edu

Space vehicles like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 are designed to be reusable. But this means that, like Olympic gymnasts hoping for a gold medal, they have to stick their landings. Landing is stressful on a…

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Origami-inspired materials could soften the blow for reusable spacecraft

Cities of the future may be built with locally available volcanic ash

07.02.2018 | MIT | news.mit.edu

MIT engineers working with scientists in Kuwait have found that volcanic rocks, when pulverized into a fine ash, can be used as a sustainable additive in concrete structures.

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Cities of the future may be built with locally available volcanic ash

Ultra-Light Aluminum

25.09.2017 | Utah State University | www.usu.edu

If you drop an aluminum spoon in a sink full of water, the spoon will sink to the bottom. That’s because aluminum, in its conventional form, is denser than water says Utah State University chemist…

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New 3D Printers Can Print Materials as Strong as Steel

30.08.2017 | ExtremeTech | www.extremetech.com

A few years ago 3D printing was supposed to be the next big thing, but progress has been slower than those in the industry had hoped. The cost of 3D printers has come down, but they’re not much more…

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New 3D Printers Can Print Materials as Strong as Steel

Solar cell that captures nearly all energy of solar spectrum

12.07.2017 | George Washington University | www.gwu.edu

Scientists have designed and constructed a prototype for a new solar cell that integrates multiple cells stacked into a single device capable of capturing nearly all of the energy in the solar…

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Solar cell that captures nearly all energy of solar spectrum

New nano devices could withstand extreme environments of space

29.03.2017 | TechXplore | techxplore.com

Researchers at the Stanford Extreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory, or the XLab, are developing heat-, corrosion- and radiation-resistant electronics. They hope to move research into extreme…

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New nano devices could withstand extreme environments of space

3-D printing with cellulose

06.03.2017 | MIT News | news.mit.edu

For centuries, cellulose has formed the basis of the world's most abundantly printed-on material: paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material to print…

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Graphene foam gets big and tough

14.02.2017 | Rice University | news.rice.edu

A chunk of conductive graphene foam reinforced by carbon nanotubes can support more than 3,000 times its own weight and easily bounce back to its original height.

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Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known

09.01.2017 | MIT | news.mit.edu

A team of researchers at MIT has designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The new material, a sponge…

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Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known

Sound-proof metamaterial inspired by spider webs

12.09.2016 | Phys.org | www.phys.org

A team of researchers from Italy, France and the UK has designed an acoustic metamaterial (which is a material made of periodically repeating structures) influenced by the intricate spider web…

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