Science news articles about 'traditional materials'

... shown in a lab trial that the efficiency of high-oleic sunflower oil as a base ingredient for industrial lubricants measures up to traditional materials, while being more environmentally friendly.

... as well as new build, access to traditional building materials. When the Nordic Building Limes Forum ... Läckö Castles, where local materials, produced on a small scale, are applied. "If we are to keep ...

... not just one, but up to three possible plasmon-polaritons if the dielectric used is not a traditional material, but a periodically non-homogeneous sculptured nematic thin film. "Just because the ...

... forces make the structures more uniform in size and higher density than you can obtain with the traditional materials." The block copolymers pattern the resulting array down to the molecular level, ...

... Wang believes that eventually properly tuned polymer capacitors could replace batteries. "Traditional materials are ceramic materials which have high weight and are very fragile," says Wang. "Mobile ...

... impacts may be as much as 100 times greater per unit of weight than those of traditional materials, potentially offsetting some of the environmental benefits of the small size of nanomaterials. ...

... (CNF) production may be as much as 100 times greater per unit of weight than those of traditional materials. According to another paper by Hatice Şengül and colleagues at the University of Illinois ...

... of new, unconventional forms of superconductivity. They offer a new explanation for superconductivity in non-traditional materials — one that describes a potentially new state of matter in which the ...