Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences

Scientists develop a simple method that mimics plant motion to get paper to 'fold itself' after printingCredit: Hiroki Shigemune in ...

Terminator salvation? New machine learning program to accelerate clean energy generation

From 'The Terminator' to 'The Matrix', Hollywood has taught us to be wary of artificial intelligence. But rather than sealing ...

Tough, strong and heat-endure: Bioinspired material to oust plastics

Credit: GUAN Qingfang Modern life relies closely on plastics, even though the petroleum-based production creates serious environmental challenges. The industry ...

Coating plastics by porous nanofilm

Credit: Tohoku University A research team has developed a new method for creating metal-organic framework (MOF) thin films that can ...

WFIRM scientists create hybrid tissue construct for cartilage regeneration

Credit: WFIRM WINSTON-SALEM, NC, NOVEMBER, 2020 -- Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine scientists (WFIRM) have developed a method to ...

New kind of superconductivity discovered

‘Electronic skin’ promises cheap and recyclable alternative to wearable devices

Credit: Chuanqian Shi Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing a wearable electronic device that's "really wearable"--a stretchy ...

Sugar-coated viral proteins hijack and hitch a ride out of cells

New drug target for sugar-coated virusesCredit: Image: ?ukasz F. Sobala Researchers from the Universities of Melbourne, York, Warwick and Oxford ...

Germanium telluride’s hidden properties at the nanoscale revealed

Credit: HZB Germanium telluride (GeTe) is known as a ferrolectric Rashba semiconductor with a number of interesting properties. The crystals ...

Swirl power: how gentle body movement will charge your mobile phone

Scientists have found a way to generate electricity from nylon, raising hopes that the clothes on our backs will become ...

A new candidate material for quantum spin liquids

Credit: Péter Szirmai In 1973, physicist and later Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson proposed a bizarre state of matter: the ...

New insights into 3D printing of spacers and membranes

To also address the controversies on the feasibility of 3D printing for membranes, researchers from SUTD and NTU have coined ...

Scientists design magnets with outstanding properties

New lightweight magnets have possible real-world applicationsCredit: Rodolphe Clérac An international team of researchers led by the Centre de Recherche ...

Higher-resolution imaging of living, moving cells using plasmonic metasurfaces

Metasurface of self-assembled gold nanoparticles shown to improve resolution of fluorescence images of living cells under a widefield optical microscope ...

‘Liquid sunshine’ enlightens new way of green energy

Credit: DICP The potential of renewable energy in China is huge. Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy and lowering carbon ...

Anti-hacking based on the circular polarization direction of light

Development of a phototransistor based on the characteristic of light to travel in a straight line while rotating. Possible to ...

Scientists work to shed light on Standard Model of particle physics