The phrase
"wonder material" refers to a substance or material that is incredibly amazing, useful, or revolutionary in some way. It is often used to describe new materials with extraordinary properties that have the potential to transform various industries.
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Now researchers are creating laboratory -
engineered wonder materials that can conceal objects from almost anything that travels as a wave.
Let's take a look at the so -
called wonder material and it's possible uses that have made it a legend in the scientific community.
The one atom -
thick wonder material known as graphene could be incorporated into speakers and microphones to enable them to process sounds far below and above the limits of human hearing.
Graphene is a
new wonder material, a variant of graphite or carbon organized into layers just one atom thick.
Graphene has been hailed as a two - dimensional
wonder material for electronics but its lack of a band gap has hindered its development for devices.
Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC), which is produced by processing wood pulp, is being hailed as the
latest wonder material.
Now, researchers at the University of Vienna have directly imaged the diffusion of a butterfly - shaped atomic defect in graphene, the recently discovered two -
dimensional wonder material, over long image sequences.
But to fully exploit these atomically
tailored wonder materials, scientists must pry free the secrets of how and why they bend and break under stress.
Biodegradable plastics are more ancient than you credit in your special report
on wonder materials (11 October, p 36).
As a potential contact electrode and interconnection material, wafer - scale graphene could be an essential component in microelectronic circuits, but most graphene fabrication methods are not compatible with silicon microelectronics, thus blocking graphene's leap from
potential wonder material to actual profit - maker.
It is time to adopt a similar approach in nanoscience and stop expecting that one
single wonder material can solve all our problems.
Now the
overachieving wonder material has been put to work in the garden, as Australian researchers have used it as an effective slow - release carrier for fertilizer.
The
2D wonder material, graphene, has a long list of superpowers, but one thing it hasn't been great at is absorbing light.
The 2017
Wonders Material Adaptation Project (MAP) provides guidance for streamlining the 2017 Wonders literacy program in grades K - 6.
Random International's first purely video - based work, Everything and Nothing, is featured in the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry's group
exhibition Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond.
In 2016 the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) will come to the UK for the first time; to Manchester, the historical Cottonopolis of the industrial revolution and home of
wonder material Graphene.
In 2010 two physicists at Manchester University in the U.K. shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on a
new wonder material: graphene, a flat sheet of carbon just one atom thick.
Plastic is undeniably
the wonder material: It's cheap and versatile, and it is ubiquitous where we live, work and shop.
The wonder material invented in the U.S. long ago can help enable more efficient engines and renewable energy technologies
Researchers at Britain's University of Manchester believe their work on graphene, a material they call «
the wonder material of the 21st Century», will change the way we live.
Is it really
the wonder material it's cracked up to be?
The wonder material graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms with extraordinary properties, has been proposed as one solution.
A method for making large amounts of
the wonder material graphene is so simple that it can be done with kitchen appliances and Fairy Liquid
Despite breathless headlines, it is not clear when completely new things from
the wonder material will appear
Perovskites — a family of materials with the crystal structure of calcium titanate — have been described as a «
wonder material» and shown to be almost as efficient as silicon in harnessing solar energy, as well as being significantly cheaper to produce.
Graphene is
a wonder material with many superlatives to its name.
«How to make
the wonder material graphene superconducting.»
AFTER only a few years basking in the limelight,
wonder material graphene has a competitor in the shape of silicene.
Scientists from the Electronic Properties of Materials Group at the Faculty of Physics (University of Vienna) and their collaboration partners teamed up to uncover the potential superconducting coupling mechanism of
the wonder material graphene.
Regarding Maurice Ward and
his wonder material Starlite (12 May, p 40).
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, winners of this year's physics Nobel, spoke to Michael Brooks about the enjoyment and frustrations of their work, and the prospects for graphene,
the wonder material that brought them global fame
Researchers from the University of Exeter have discovered that GraphExeter — a material adapted from the «
wonder material» graphene — can withstand prolonged exposure to both high temperature and humidity.
You might think that such a new «
wonder material» would lie outside your everyday experience, but graphene is the exception.
«Defying the Achilles heel of «
wonder material» graphene: Resilience to extreme conditions.»
All these projects researching into
the wonder material that is, literally, all around us are only possible because of support for border - crossing science.
We are excited to have demonstrated successfully how
this wonder material can be used to achieve a practical technological advancement — something particularly rewarding to us as engineers.»
With a «honeycomb» structure the «
wonder material» is 100 times stronger than steel, highly conductive and flexible.
A chance discovery about the «
wonder material» graphene — already exciting scientists because of its potential uses in electronics, energy storage and energy generation — takes it a step closer to being used in medicine and human health.
These are turning out to be
wonder materials.
Graphene is
a wonder material: The carbon honeycomb is just an atom thick.
An ultrasensitive biosensor made from
the wonder material graphene has been used to detect molecules that indicate an increased risk of developing cancer.
A major milestone in graphene research, this brings us one step closer to unlocking
this wonder material's full potential not only in electronics, but also in filtration and sensing applications.
Graphene could certainly be described as
a wonder material.