What makes some plastics stick to metal without any glue? Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have peered into the ...

In the Arizona desert, a lab accident more than a decade ago set in motion the development of a building material that could ...

Thanks to a new strategy in the development of materials related to steel, high strength and ductility are no longer mutually exclusive. For the steel industry, there may be a way out of the dilemma ...

University of Toronto researchers create biochar from wood as strong as mild steel, redefining sustainable materials.

The mechanical strength and toughness of engineering materials are often mutually exclusive, posing challenges for material design and selection. To address this, a research team from The Hong Kong ...

This article will go over some basic background about tensile strength of material and then discuss historic material strength improvement to understand what industrial production of new carbon ...

Spiders and silkworms are masters of materials science, but scientists are finally catching up. Silks are among the toughest materials known, stronger and less brittle, pound for pound, than steel.

Scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to design never-before-seen nanomaterials with the strength of carbon steel and the lightness of styrofoam. The new nanomaterials, made using machine ...

A study conducted at Columbia University has revealed that even when stitched together from much smaller fragments, large sheets of graphene still retain much of their mechanical properties. The ...

Known mechanisms for strengthening crystalline materials are called ‘grain (or interphase) boundary strengthening’, ‘twin boundary strengthening’, ‘solid solution strengthening’ and ‘precipitate (or ...

There’s a method to modeling cracking in brittle materials. The strength of teeth is told on the scale of millimeters. Porcelain smiles are kind of like ceramics — except that while china plates ...