Is this the end of potholes? Road repairs are easier and as much as five times cheaper when problems are detected early. But sending crews to continually survey streets for damage isn’t practical, and minor cracks often grow into gaping holes before workers can get to them. A group headed by Ming Wang, a professor of environmental and civil engineering at […]
Boston Herald Nanocrystals come up big In a winter of seemingly endless snow and ice, what if there were a better way of fortifying roads against potholes? What if this same technology could be used to build stronger bridges, create solar panels, even penetrate and selectively kill cancer cells? They’re called nanocrystals — particles so small that their width measures about […]