Science is art
Winners from this year’s The Materials Research Society’s Science as Art contest includes ice crystal-like nanowires and flower-like fractals. The photos submitted are of various materials imaged using different microscopes […]
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When LEDs pop
Just the other day, one of the LED light bulbs in our kitchen short circuited. It made a huge popping sounds and released a lot of smoke as it popped […]
Brighter LEDs bioinspired from fireflies
A team of researchers from Belgium, Canada, and France have developed a more efficient gallium nitride (GaN)-based LED using a design inspired by the firefly. The design, fabrication, and characterization of this […]
QR Codes to be used to prevent drug counterfeiting
Think Quick Response (QR) codes are just for advertising products or transferring addresses and contact information between smartphones? Well, it turns out they can also be used to prevent drug […]
Using light to detect the internal damage of materials
You can usually tell when a material is about to fail, you might see sagging, cracks, dents, holes, etc. But sometimes materials can fail suddenly—without warning— this known as catastrophic […]
