The manufacturing of metal components often seems like a choice between two extremes. On one side, there is the slow and ...
In a quiet corner of Switzerland, researchers have stopped treating metal like something to be melted and poured, and started treating it like something that can be grown. Instead of blasting powders ...
As a US Marine Corps combat engineer serving in Iraq, Jim Monroe used MacGyver-like hacks to repair mine rollers. Meant to detonate and clear mines, these heavy studded wheels are mounted on the ...
A groundbreaking new method promises to reshape the way we manufacture nanoscale electronic components. It could offer a faster, cheaper, and more reliable alternative to traditional chip-making ...
So, you want to know about metallization in semiconductor chips? It’s basically how we create the tiny metal pathways that ...
Michael D. Bartlett is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Soft Materials and Structures Lab and at the Macromolecules Innovation Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.
The Max Planck Institute for Medical Research has produced batene fleece, a fine metal fleece, to act as current collectors in batteries, making them safer and more energy dense. Its Batene GmbH ...