Throughout history, representations of luxury and wealth have dominated the fashion industry. As a result, many materials now mimic extravagance but at a fraction of the cost by using different, less ...

A new invention from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) could soon help manufacturers more easily adopt the Lab's patented Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion ...

The thermoelectric effects arise because charge carriers in metals and semiconductors are free to move much like gas molecules, while carrying charge as well as heat. When a temperature gradient is ...

Nanoscale materials, or nanomaterials, are materials where at least one relevant length scale is within the range of nanometres. These materials usually have very different properties from their bulk ...