Since their conception, researchers have tried to shrink electronic devices to unprecedented sizes, even to the point of fabricating them from a few molecules.
Researchers from Virginia Tech and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a novel way to 3D print complex objects of one of the…
To help overcome these obstacles, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the nonprofit World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC)…
A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota has developed a new material that could potentially improve the efficiency of computer processing and…
Using advanced in situ electron microscopy the researchers in Prof. Erdmann Spiecker’s group opened up new ways to explore the fundamentals of plasticity and…
The research centers on a material called samarium nickelate, which is a quantum material, meaning its performance taps into quantum mechanical interactions….
A team of engineers at the University of Delaware is developing next-generation smart textiles by creating flexible carbon nanotube composite coatings on a…
New artificial materials for semiconductors used in solar cells or photoelectrochemical cells that are designed from scratch with totally new and tailored…
3D printing by direct laser writing enables production of micro-meter-sized structures for many applications, from biomedicine to microelectronics to optical…
An international team, led by researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has designed a family of molecules capable of binding to metal…
A material that consists of atoms of a single element, but has completely different properties depend-ing on the atomic arrangement – this may sound strange,…
Geckos, spiders and beetles have shown us how to do it: thanks to special adhesive elements on their feet, they can easily run along ceilings or walls. The…
‘The importance of steel will become clearer over the next few decades, as hydrogen becomes a key fuel and steel tanks are needed to store it,’ predicts…
The word “defect” universally evokes some negative, undesirable feature, but researchers at the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University…
“The seed coat's major function is to protect the seed but it also needs to become soft to allow the seed to germinate, so the mechanical property changes,”…
Even the name promises speed: Since 2016, an international team with companies and institutes from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel and Switzerland…
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