“The outfit is made of material with integrated sensors that react when someone comes close or touches it,” says Dan Riley, who was responsible for the…
Hermetic packaging poses particular challenges for the production technology, which can no longer be met by conventional methods such as gluing and soldering….
For years, scientists have tried to understand the propagation of cracks and how they affect the materials in which they form, said Alain Karma, distinguished…
A team of materials scientists and chemists have taken inspiration from sea shells found on the beach to create a composite material from dissimilar…
Most polymers — materials made of long, chain-like molecules — are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to…
Rice University researchers have found a way to stitch graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) into a two-dimensional quilt that offers new paths of…
The end result is a diamond-like carbon material mass-produced at the nanoscale that doesn’t wear. The new nano-sized tip, researchers say, wears away at the…
Recent years have seen significant advances in the properties achieved by both these materials, and so researchers have begun to blend these materials into…
In a study in ACS' monthly journal, Nano Letters, they describe development of flexible, biocompatible rubber films for use in implantable or wearable energy…
The inspiration? Not wax. Not glass. Not even Teflon.Instead, University of Florida engineers have achieved what they label in a new paper a “nearly perfect…
This finding, detailed recently in the journal Science, is important because these nanomaterials are becoming more ubiquitous in the fabrication of…
A class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could provide the demanding combination of properties…
Researcher Nere Garmendia, based in the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastián, has just published her PhD, a thesis which may well mean the first step to…
Polystyrene is regarded as one of the materials that is hazardous to the environment as it needs more than 100 years to degrade into the ground. In fact,…
The key to the sensing technology is Peratech's patented 'QTC' materials. QTC's, or Quantum Tunnelling Composites, are a unique new material type which…
A collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University's Center for Catalysis and scientists at Oxford University has produced a new approach for…
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