"Antimicrobial Properties of Copper Alloy Suface"

Recent laboratory studies show that several different types of bacteria die when they come in contact with dry copper and copper alloy surfaces at room temperature. In fact, the numbers drop to zero on copper alloys in one to two hours. These results suggest that the selection of copper alloys for surfaces exposed to human...

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Boron Buckyballs

Boron Buckyballs CARBON   Boron Buckyball (Credit: Boris Yakobson/Rice University) We are all familiar with the well known Buckminsterfullerene; discovered some years ago in 1985 by a group of scientists in the UK and US. including Robert Curl, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley. They discovered that 60 Carbon atoms can form a stable and...

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Motivation msg for the members

This message is to motivate our members who are not logged in to our website recently. We are still improving our website to give you more opportunities and try to give you the most out of it. We appreciate your membership with "MaterialsEngineers". But it is not enough to make a real network among our materials society, you have to be an active member. At least one signin per day and try to ask questions, post blogs, share what you know with others, etc.  Below are some of our features.you...

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Welcome to MaterialsEngineers....

This is a blog created for "MaterialsEngineers" Community.The blogs are hosted and published in the Community site. So we encourge you to go and see our blogs published by our members of the site.Go to the online magazine which run by members of the community. >>>This community site is specially made for Materials Engineering students at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Moratuwa.But we invite, all Materials Engineers, Materials Engineering Students...

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