Hoya is the second largest eyeglass lens manufacturer in the world and the largest contact lens provider in Japan. While its life care business has a relatively lower operating margin, we expect Hoya ...

Microlenses applied to eyeglasses can help reduce growth-related worsening of nearsightedness (myopia), preventing potential ...

Diffusion generation process for a stable crystalline material having a target band gap value (3 eV) using the MatterGen model. After a two-year postdoctoral stint at MIT’s Computer Science and ...

Material-Skin is a HTML5/Javascript user-interface for Lyrion Music Server, suitable for mobile and desktop usage. The Screenshots wiki page has more screenshots. For more information, please refer to ...

Materials innovation is one of the key drivers of major technological breakthroughs. The discovery of lithium cobalt oxide in the 1980s laid the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery technology.

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo) announced plans to boost production capacity for its MR series of high refractive-index lens material. MR is a thiourethane-based high refractive-index lens material ...

A new study examines ways that carbon could be used as a key ingredient in building materials—particularly biomass plastics and cement. Obstacles still remain, as some of these technologies are ...

This study is focused on applying environment-friendly materials (EFM) to construct sports facilities for sustainability. The current status and future potential of using EFM in sports facility ...

But that magnetism can only occur in a system that lacks a specific symmetry—one that the team's new material should have had. "So the fact that we saw this was very puzzling. We didn't really ...

In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric current with zero resistance—was discovered in three distinct materials. Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon.

The Hydro lenses are made with hioxifilcon A material to keep your eyes hydrated, while the SkyHy lenses use olifilcon B silicone hydrogel for superior comfort. What are the benefits of ordering ...