In a step towards developing advanced materials for functional coatings, a research group has developed a technology that combines structural color coating with super water-repellent properties. The ...

Mineral scale inside pipes is one of those hidden problems that quietly drains money and energy from industrial systems, municipal utilities, and home infrastructure. Now a new generation of lab-grown ...

Coating engine components with hard carbon reduces friction to almost zero -- a development that could save billions of liters of fuel worldwide every year. Now researchers have developed a new laser ...

For this film coating, methane and hydrogen gases were fed into a reactor chamber that contained silicon wafers spin-coated with a nanodiamond solution. High-power microwave radiation energized the ...

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Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a method to relieve the internal stresses of amorphous, or noncrystalline, diamond films, creating improved protection for metal and plastic ...

Chris Walker looks at some of the uses of a novel amorphous diamond material. Diamond — hard, sparkling and bright — has been revered for thousands of years as a gemstone. Nowadays it is also widely ...

Diamond, with its high thermal conductivity, is one of the ideal materials for semiconductors, and after overcoming various obstacles, construction of the world's first diamond semiconductor factory ...

In industrial pipes, mineral deposits build up the way limescale collects inside a kettle ⎯ only on a far larger and more expensive scale. Mineral scaling is a major issue in water and energy systems, ...