Brake pads look like a simple wear item, but the material you choose quietly reshapes how your car stops, how often you visit ...

Ceramic materials are renowned for their unique properties including high compressive strength, thermal insulation and chemical stability, yet they are inherently brittle. Advances in materials ...

Ceramic brake pads combine ceramic fibers with other materials to offer quieter, cleaner braking. Semi-metallic pads use heavier metals for better performance.

Since his postdoctoral days at MIT, Hang Yu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been wrestling ...

The components of high-quality lasers can be made of many different materials. Many high-power and solid-state lasers use ceramic materials to generate a laser beam and are seen as an alternative ...

The history of synthetic glass-ceramic materials goes back to 1953. Initially, metals were the materials that were being researched for utilization as dental replacements and orthopedic implants.

A new technique from Purdue University is designed to improve missiles, engines and drinking glasses made from ceramic materials. (Stock photo) Something as simple as an electric field could soon make ...

Ceramics are defined as inorganic, non-metallic, polycrystalline carbide, nitride, or oxide materials. Some of their examples are Tungsten carbide, Silicon carbide, Zinc oxide, Titanium carbide, ...

With a nudge from some engineered proteins, immune cells can be activated to identify and attack tumor cells. This is the basis for an emerging approach in cancer therapy, which involves harvesting ...

The structure known today as the Eiffel Tower was originally dubbed the Tour de 300 mètres, the 300-meter tower. The name was proposed by engineers Maurice Koechlin and Émile Nougier to Gustave Eiffel ...