A Glasgow University team has developed medical sensors powered by a porous foam of graphene and silver, an advance with potential applications in the wearable device market. They used a commercially ...

Researchers have made a lighter and potentially cheaper kind of shape-memory alloy: materials that change shape in response to a magnetic field but remember their original shape. The new material, a ...

SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, Vol. 8, No. 3 (July 2015), pp. 937-945 (9 pages) ABSTRACT A novel porous metallic foam has been studied in this work. This composite material ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract One-dimensional column and two-dimensional tank experiments were carried out to determine (1) the physics of foam flow and propagation of ...

ETH spinoff FenX transforms industrial waste into a porous foam suitable for building insulation. Unlike other sustainable materials used for the purpose, this type of insulation is non-flammable and ...

Examples exist aplenty in nature - the quill of a bird’s feather is hollow, yet sturdy. Similarly, bone is not solid, but contains a pored inner structure. This light, yet strong style of structure is ...