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New Computational Approach Speeds Design of Functionally Graded Materials

The team developed a computational framework using robotic path planning algorithms to rapidly identify optimal composition gradients between dissimilar materials. The framework enables the creation ...
Machine Design

Functionally Graded Materials Are More Important Than Ever—and Digital Tools are Making Them Easier to Design

How additive manufacturing advanced the development of functionally graded materials. Why compositionally graded materials present a greater challenge to materials engineers. How computational ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Expanding the Vision of Sensor Materials

<< Previous Chapter: APPENDIX B: SENSOR TECHNOLOGY GLOSSARY -- DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATIONS . . . based on the magnitude of the energy change to be detected. For example, the detection of chemical ...
C&EN

Conducting charge is MOFs’ new trick

For 25 years, chemists have been finding applications that take advantage of the extreme surface areas of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). In just 1 g of some of these porous materials, the areas can ...