Breast cancer is a traumatic experience for patients, often leaving them questioning who they are because of scars after ...

As their name suggests, nanocrystals are tiny particles. These particles are crystalline elements with at least one dimension smaller than 1,000 nanometres, where a nanometre is one thousand-millionth ...

Wind turbine blade bearing failures can cause significant damage, such as blade disengagement. These bearings are challenged ...

Scientists confirm Plastic Ice VII, a unique high-pressure ice phase where water molecules rotate freely, offering insights ...

Maintaining an even temperature along the bend line is critical. Inconsistent heating results in varying material properties, ...

There is no reason at present for supposing that the plastic deformation of transparent crystals differs fundamentally from that of other crystalline substances, and one may reasonably expect that ...

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China Key Laboratory of Micro-systems and Micro-structures, Manufacturing of Ministry of Education, Harbin ...

I DESCRIBED recently a form of hardness micro-tester which permits light loads to be applied to a diamond indenter of pyramidal form as a means of determining the hardness figures of minute ...

Used to make cooking spatulas, takeout boxes and kitchen peelers, black plastic made headlines after a study last year claimed that the material contained toxic flame retardants which could be ...

Every minute, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic enters our oceans. Scientists warn that by 2040, plastic waste in our seas could triple, threatening marine life and potentially our ...

National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Film, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, University of Science and ...