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Smart bandages? (Thanks to rare metals)
I grew up during an era where I got iodine and a Band-Aid when I had a scrape. That was years ago. Today, I am aware that bandages can be embedded with medicine to treat wounds, but tomorrow?...
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Prosthetic Advances – Present and Future Applications
Earlier this year, Chicago resident Vernita Jefferson, 73, was fitted with one of the first microprocessor-controlled prosthetics, called the Triton smart ankle. Jefferson’s new ankle/foot, uses...
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Minds of Rare Metals
My favourite series of novels are far and away the Culture novels by UK native Iain M. Banks. The science fiction novels are set in a post scarcity society (“Money is sign of poverty.”), where humans...
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Super-thin TV sticks to walls… magnetically
Korean electronics giant LG recently revealed a 55-inch OLED TV that’s so light and thin (1.45 kg and 1 millimeter thick… or better yet, ‘1-millimeter thin’) that it can be mounted on a wall with only...
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Quantum Records Courtesy of Europium and Yttrium
It was more than a year ago that I wrote about crystals infused with praseodymium. These crystals, with the help of laser beams, magnetic fields and high frequency pulses, were used to “demonstrate an...
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Solar Power, Lithium Batteries and Carbon Fibre… on an Impulse
Sourced from http://unt.ua/ I’m not sure if you’ve been watching the adventures of, or better yet, the great strides being made by Solar Impulse 2 – the aircraft that is powered only by the sun. On...
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Touch the future of new materials—literally
While we operate under the banner Rare Metals Matter (… and they do), our content actually shares a common underlying theme of materials and material science. We’ve described a broad range of...
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Chemistry, Chemistry, Chemistry – Take Aim at EV Battery Market
According to Tina Casey in her July 29, 2015 article on cleantechnica.com, “lithium-ion (Li-Ion) is the gold standard for chemical energy storage.” However, Casey points out that there are a number of...
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Almost a Perfect Battery?
I can’t attest to the headline “Almost a Perfect Battery” claimed by a team of researchers at MIT, but they reported that they have developed a solid-state electrolyte, which can greatly boost modern...
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LCD tattoo – no pain, no regrets, better health!
Tattoos come in all shapes and sizes. A new kind of temporary tattoo could become a kind of health monitor. Instead of just art — a tattoo can also be science! A materials research team at the...
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Advances in materials soon to solve any dental dilemma
I have to admit… I’m not the easiest patient in the world. Let alone my ‘sensitivity’ around any treatment (to be read as “I’m a real scaredy cat”), I also ask a ton of questions. I do however love...
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Looks like a street light, acts like a computer
Traditional street lighting has been a cost drain on cities and towns and can often account for up to 40 percent of a municipality’s electric bill. This could explain why many cities and towns (looking...
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EM-Sense: Not Mickey Mouse Technology
Everything seems to be getting smarter these days… (Well, maybe not everything, like me! Just ask my adult kids when I try to change channels or PVR an upcoming TV special.) Seriously, Stephanie...
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Anyone see where I tossed those socks… SenseGo smart socks!
Imagine a pair of socks that could save diabetics from potentially fatal foot ulcers… Well, we don’t have to seek a solution any longer… it has been invented! Students associated with Hebrew...
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Tin is finding growing role in new, efficient technologies
Sourced from PeriodicTable.com Tin is traditionally thought of as a material used in tinplating, solders, glass making and in alloys such as bronze and pewter. However, more recently, tin has...
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Materials database unleashes data deluge
Forty-plus years ago, when I was attending Met Engineering classes, I couldn’t imagine sitting with a laptop in hand, designing new materials to meet yet unseen performance expectations. Then again, at...
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World Economic Forum’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2016
New technologies seem to be being announced faster than ever (and a lot of them I describe for you here each month!), holding promise of solving many of the world’s most pressing challenges, be it food...
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Moving People with Assistive Technology
US President Barack Obama fist bumps with the robotic arm of neuro interface patient Nathan Copeland as he tours innovation projects at the White House Frontiers Conference at the University of...
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Rubidium Raises Perovskite Solar Cells Efficiency
I’m a relative novice when it comes to perovskite solar cells (PSC), but they certainly have been hitting the material science media recently. We have even posted articles here on Rare Metals Matters...
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Even the International Space Station Needs New Batteries
Sourced from Cdnph.upi.com Much like any gadget you’ve ever owned, the International Space Station (‘ISS’) also needs new batteries from time to time. As David Grossman reported on popularmechanics.com...
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