Nickel-titanium shape memory records highest efficiency —

Funded by the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize Our Engineering Future (DMREF) Program, researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University used an Artificial Intelligence Materials Selection framework (AIMS) to discover a new shape memory alloy. The shape memory alloy showed the highest efficiency during operation achieved thus far for nickel-titanium-based materials. In … Read More

Sustainable and AI Concrete Startup AICrete Announces $4

Through use of AI, AICrete is poised to reduce concrete emissions by up to 35% and drastically increase industry profit margins

AICrete, the only recipe-as-a-service platform optimizing local materials for cleaner and more cost-efficient concrete, announced today that it has raised $4 million in a seed funding led by CLEAR Ventures and VoLo Earth Ventures with participation from Cortical Ventures

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Breaking the mould with plasterboard

Breaking the mould with plasterboard

Patent of the month: breathable plasterboard for healthier buildings

UK Patent Number GB2591262

Plasterboard is one of the most extensively used materials in construction. Formed from gypsum-based material that is sandwiched between layers of paper, it is lightweight and easy to use, as well as benefiting from low flammability. It is also known for its acoustic qualities.

However, the sustained

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Researchers say the material has promising applications,

A team from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering has developed a new family of two-dimensional materials that researchers say has promising applications, including in advanced electronics and high-capacity batteries.

Led by Michael Naguib, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, the study has been published in the journal Advanced Materials.

“Two-dimensional materials

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