Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say their polymer coating could be used to protect photovoltaic modules, due to its impermeability to gases. The team has demonstrated that a ...

The American experiment has been sustained not by flawless execution of its founding ideals but by the moral imagination of ...

MIT researchers developed a lightweight polymer film that is nearly impenetrable to gas molecules, raising the possibility ...

The transition from a carbon-based fuel economy to that centered on hydrogen has gained interest worldwide given the focus on ...

Cruelty Free International acknowledges the slight decrease in animal testing in Great Britain, as reported by the Home Office today, 1 but warns that the pace of change remains so painfully slow that ...

Abstract: Although superconducting accelerator and fusion magnets operate at cryogenic temperature and in most cryogenic applications corrosion is not an issue, it is essential to avoid corrosion ...

MIT researchers have developed a technique that enables real-time, 3D monitoring of corrosion, cracking, and other material failure processes inside a nuclear reactor environment. This could allow ...

Abstract: Since the 1950s, and continuing to the present day, wirebond (WB) has remained the most popular interconnection technology. WB is known for its cost-effectiveness, proven reliability, and ...

The fuel coating is meant to protect the critical components of a rocket driven by a nuclear thermal propulsion—or NTP—system, whose reactor generates high levels of heat and radiation, ORNL said ...

ABSTRACT: The aim of this work was to study the influence of oxide ions concentration on the stability of 316L stainless steel and its alloying compounds (chromium, iron, nickel and molybdenum) in ...

NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flught Engineer Loral O’Hara shows off research hardware supporting the UMAMI, or Understanding of Microgravity on Animal-Microbe Interaction, space biology experiment ...