Construction insurance coverage faces pressure from tariffs as material costs spike and supply chains shift

With material costs fluctuating and trade policies shifting rapidly, contractors and owners are forced to make real-time ...

This Quantum Material Breaks the Rules – and Reveals New Physics

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...
PV Tech

Fraunhofer ISE tests medium voltage solar components to reduce costs and materials

Fraunhofer ISE expects to complete the medium-voltage testing project in 2028. Image: KACO New Energy. German research institute Fraunhofer ISE has launched a project to explore how medium-voltage ...
World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Material Passport - Percentage of components with a material passport

The unit(s) of measurement applicable to the metric. The details of a metric’s alignment to each framework, including where the same or similar metric can be found within the listed framework. An ...
Digi Times

India roundup: Fujifilm to build semiconductor materials factory in India, targeting regional exports

Fujifilm will build a semiconductor materials plant in India for regional exports; Ziroh Labs promotes CPU-first AI compute; India approves 17 ECMS projects worth US$810 million to expand component ...
Optics

Fraunhofer ILT develops process to shape hard material components by USP laser

Tools made of hard materials and ceramics such as tungsten carbide are particularly wear-resistant. However, the tools used to manufacture them wear out all the faster – unless the tool is laser light ...
IEEE

Ultrasonic Characterization of Material Properties in Metal Components Additively Manufactured by Powder Bed Fusion

Abstract: We present the methodology for using pulsed-echo ultrasound to characterize the properties of additively manufactured (AM) metal components and their response to changes in the fabrication ...
Silicon Valley

Applied Materials property buying binge in South Bay tops $400 million with new deal

SUNNYVALE — Applied Materials has added a Sunnyvale property in a South Bay buying spree that now tops $400 million as it looks to build a cutting-edge new tech complex. Oakland historic building ...
The Debrief

Scientists Invent a 2D Material with Exotic Properties Called ‘Glaphene’ that “Nature Does Not Make on its Own”

An international team of researchers says they have successfully integrated a pair of “fundamentally different” two-dimensional materials into a third, all-new 2D material with exotic properties ...
EurekAlert!

Material’s ‘incipient’ property could jumpstart fast, low-power electronics

Combining ultra-thin molybdenum disulfide with flexible strontium titanate nanomembranes creates advanced materials that can be used in a variety of low-power, high-performance electronic and sensing ...
Science Daily

Magnetic semiconductor preserves 2D quantum properties in 3D material

Physicists have developed a novel approach to maintain special quantum characteristics, even in 3D materials, with potential applications in optical systems and advanced computing. There is a big ...