OCI is set to actively target the pitch market?pitch being a key raw material for isotropic synthetic graphite used in semiconductors?thereby expanding its portfolio of high value-added semiconductor ...

Additive manufacturing is an innovative technology that is disrupting several industries and research fields. 3D printing techniques possess several advantages over conventional manufacturing methods, ...

Metamaterials, a hot area of research today, are artificial materials engineered with resonant elements to display properties that are not found in natural materials. By organizing materials in a ...

PNAS is the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serial. It publishes high-impact research reports, commentaries, perspectives, reviews, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. In ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have designed a new class of 3D-printed lattice structures that are lightweight and highly stiff, a combination that is not supposed to be ...

Subjecting a material to a hydrostatic stress also causes elastic deformation. The stress is the pressure, p, acting on the body and the strain, d = DV/V. These quantities are related through a ...

Metamaterials, a hot area of research today, are artificial materials engineered with resonant elements to display properties that are not found in natural materials. By organizing materials in a ...