Mineral scale inside pipes is one of those hidden problems that quietly drains money and energy from industrial systems, ...

A team of Rice University engineers suggests that lab-grown diamond coatings could resolve the issue of mineral scaling ...

Diamond is famous in material science for being the best natural heat conductor on Earth—but new research reveals that, at ...

Industrial pipes carrying water or chemicals invariably get gunked up as deposits accumulate on their internal surfaces. That slows flow, and slowly damages the equipment, leading to the need for ...

One of the most promising innovations of nanotechnology has been the ability to perform rapid nanofabrication using nanometer-scale tips. The fabrication speed can be dramatically increased by using ...

The nearly-occult art of quantum computing research could soon help scientists in fields as remote as biology. Two teams of researchers from the United States and Germany have found a way to ...

Researchers working in the UK’s Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford have demonstrated long range quantum entanglement in two synthetic diamonds, at room temperature. Those last words are the really ...

In industrial pipes, mineral deposits build up the way limescale collects inside a kettle ⎯ only on a far larger and more expensive scale. Mineral scaling is a major issue in water and energy systems, ...