In this case, aluminum oxide is separated into aluminum and oxygen (Fig ... Aluminum extraction requires temperatures of 1,000 o C and a lot of energy. Additional material—such as cryolite and sodium ...

Timber! Japan has successfully launched the world's first satellite that's made out of wood. The satellite dubbed LignoSat, ...

An international team of scientists have combined cyclic-olefin copolymers with a powder of aluminum oxide to create a ...

Introduction Body armor is protective clothing that can deflect or absorb the impact of bullets or other weapons used against its user.

A zoomed-in image from a scanning electron microscope showing the detailed structure of a nano-porous anodic aluminum oxide membrane. The visible patterns, known as shear banding, occur when the ...

Originally developed for electric cars, nowadays they supply mobile phone antennas with electricity, and tomorrow perhaps ...

Topology and chemistry will affect frost deposition, and researchers in Kyoo-Chul Kenneth Park’s lab at Northwestern ...

Using a custom-built machine to launch microprojectiles at supersonic speeds, Cornell researchers have uncovered new details ...

An international research team has designed a copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGSe) solar cell based on an ultrathin aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) film with strong sheet resistance.