Aluminum oxide or alumina is the fruit fly of materials science: thoroughly researched and well-understood. This compound, ...

Water and oxygen can make metals oxidize and rust, but researchers have found many ways to prevent this damage.

In the lab Researchers at TU Wien employed noncontact atomic force microscopy and computational modelling to determine the structure of the aluminium oxide surface. (Courtesy: TU Wien) Determining the ...

The use of aluminium in wiring is unlikely to bring a smile to the face of anyone who has had to deal with it in a 1960s, or early 1970s-era house. The causes behind the fires and other accidents w… ...

Three "special" oxides – aluminum oxide, chromium oxide and silicon dioxide – can actually work to protect metal from further corrosion. So the MIT team set out to explore why this was the case.

Aluminum oxide Image: Aariuser I, Wikimedia Commons Researchers led by Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid University have developed a 3D-printed anti-reflective coversheet for PV modules.