Penn State scientists discovered seven new ceramics by simply removing oxygen—opening a path to materials once beyond reach. Sometimes, less truly is more. By removing oxygen during the synthesis ...

There’s a lion’s share of potential energy in the vibrations produced by footsteps on dance floors, exercise machines in the ...

Art and science are sometimes poles apart, but that isn’t the case in a research project described in ACS Omega. For this work, an interdisciplinary team merged scientific research, technological ...

Penn State team enhance lead-free KNN piezoelectric ceramic for efficient, lightweight energy harvesting and sensing.

Ceramic materials, defined by their inorganic, non-metallic nature and high-temperature processing, have long underpinned a multitude of industrial and architectural applications. Their intrinsic ...

Lift, the U.S. Department of Defense-supported national advanced materials and manufacturing innovation institute, has been ...

A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications ...

Scientists in Hong Kong have demonstrated a new ultra-white ceramic material that can drastically cool buildings by reflecting sunlight and heat at record highs. The beetle-inspired material gets its ...

The structure known today as the Eiffel Tower was originally dubbed the Tour de 300 mètres, the 300-meter tower. The name was proposed by engineers Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nougier to Gustave Eiffel ...

Carbon ceramic brakes are an alternative high-performance type of braking system, as opposed to the more conventional setup featuring brake discs made of steel or iron. Carbon ceramic brakes provide ...