Scientific community has long been fascinated by boron nitride due to its unique properties: sturdy, ultra-thin transparent, insulating and lightweight. The boron is a material that can be used by a wide range of researchers. Scientists from Rice Un…
Boron carbide is also known as black Diamond. It has a molecular structure of B4C. The powder is typically grayish. It is one the three hardest materials known (the other two being diamond and cubic boronnitride). It can be found in many industrial a…
Boron has been a major name in the world of chemistry. There have been two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry for the work done on boron. There are a few heat-resistant products on the market that have boric acid added to the glass. This means the glass wi…
The titanium hydride used is a getter, in the electric vacuum method, as hydrogen source for metal foam production, as source of pure hydrogen, in metal-ceramic sealing, powder metallurgy and to provide titanium to the alloy. Titanium Hydride is v…
GaN-based chargers have been introduced to the market. These chargers provide a high amount of power for the device, while still maintaining a size that is reasonable, and even take up less space than the traditional chargers. Gallium Nitride, or GaN…
In recent years, transition metal dichalcogenide was one of the key two-dimensional materials for quantum functional applications. These materials have a honeycomb like graphene but have spin-orbit coupling and a honeycomb pattern. They also have a h…
GaN is a semiconductor material of third generation with a large forbidden-band width. It has superior properties compared to first-generation Si or second-generation GaAs. GaN devices, due to their high thermal conductivity and large band gaps, can…
He believes that the graphene market in China, from a business perspective, is not "hot enough" to "reduce fever", but should continue "hot". It is an allotrope in which a single layer (atoms) of carbon forms a hexagonal, two-dimensional grid in wh…
British media have reported that scientists made a major discovery - the conversion from radio signals into electricity. Popularly speaking, this is power generation via WiFi! We may see battery-free phones and battery-free laptops in a not-too-dista…
What is Hafnium Carbide and Tantalum Carbide? Tantalum carbide is a brown powder of metal cubic crystals that belongs to the sodium chloride system. The tantalum carbide used today is a sintered cemented carbide grain growth inhibitor. This has an im…
Flexible electronics can benefit from ultra-thin materials of atomic thickness, which are used for manufacturing microprocessors. Recent breakthroughs have been made in this area by researchers at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, and the…
What is aluminium nitride (AlN)?Aluminum nitride (a covalent-bond compound) is an atomic-crystal belonging to a diamondlike nitride. It has hexagonal crystals, a wurtzite structure, and is non-toxic. Aluminum nitride formula AlN. Aluminum nitride, wh…