A groundbreaking new method promises to reshape the way we manufacture nanoscale electronic components. It could offer a faster, cheaper, and more reliable alternative to traditional chip-making ...

Li-Metal, a battery materials company based in Canada, says it has produced lithium metal from lithium carbonate, which reduces the number of steps and harmful byproducts involved in refining lithium, ...

In a quiet corner of Switzerland, researchers have stopped treating metal like something to be melted and poured, and started treating it like something that can be grown. Instead of blasting powders ...

So, you want to know about metallization in semiconductor chips? It’s basically how we create the tiny metal pathways that ...

Magrathea’s new electrolyzer can make magnesium using electricity. A California-based company called Magrathea just turned on a new electrolyzer that can make magnesium metal from seawater. The ...

The basic process for making steel hasn’t changed a whole lot in the past few hundred years. Into the top of a big, lava lamp-shaped blast furnace goes iron ore and coking coal, and out comes waste ...

Metal casting transforms molten aluminum into precise, durable components through molds and controlled cooling. This centuries-old process remains vital to modern manufacturing, powering industries ...

Michael D. Bartlett is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Soft Materials and Structures Lab and at the Macromolecules Innovation Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA.

Regular doorknobs are widely reviled for their bare simplicity, but by and large society has so many other problems that it never really comes up in day to day conversation. Fear not, however, for ...