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 ...

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 ...

When mechanical and structural engineers design machines, bridges, and buildings, they calculate loads, stresses, and deformation of metal, steel, concrete, glass, wood, and plastic to find the ...

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 ...

Uniaxial tensile test of DN-H 2 O and DN-DAC. Credit: Nature Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02137-6 One drawback to double-network hydrogels, and hydrogels in general, is that once the ...

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 ...

Plastic packaging can have substantially smaller environmental impacts—including 70% lower greenhouse gas emissions—compared to other packaging materials, according to a new study. The findings ...