Story tips: Cool smart walls, magnetism twist, fuel cost savings and polymers’ impact
Credit: ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Buildings - Cool smart walls Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers used additive manufacturing to ...
Tag: Materials
New electronic skin can react to pain like human skin
Prototype device electronically replicates the way human skin senses painCredit: Ella Maru Studio Researchers have developed electronic artificial skin that ...
Giant leap for molecular measurements
A new tool to analyze molecules is 100 times faster than previous methodsCredit: © 2020 Ideguchi et al. Spectroscopy is ...
FSU researchers develop new X-ray detection technology
Credit: Photo courtesy of Biwu Ma / Florida State University Florida State University researchers have developed a new material that ...
New evidence for quantum fluctuations near a quantum critical point in a superconductor
Theory suggests that quantum critical points may be analogous to black holes as places where all sorts of strange phenomena ...
Team’s flexible micro LEDs may reshape future of wearable technology
Novel devices can be folded, cut, attached to surfacesCredit: The University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas at Dallas ...
Tungsten isotope helps study how to armor future fusion reactors
Credit: Jaimee Janiga/ORNL The inside of future nuclear fusion energy reactors will be among the harshest environments ever produced on ...
Preventing infection, facilitating healing: New biomaterials from spider silk
New biomaterials developed at the University of Bayreuth prevent colonization by bacteria and fungi, but at the same time proactively ...
Low-cost, fly footpad-like adhesive structure capable of repeated attachment/detachment
Recycle-compatible, environmentally friendly technology inspired by footpad formation mechanism during fly's pupal metamorphosisCredit: Hokkaido University of Education NIMS, HUE and ...
FEFU scientists are paving way for future tiny electronics and gadgets
Credit: Christian Wiediger, @christianw; Unsplash Scientists of the School of Natural Sciences of Far Eastern Federal University (SNS FEFU) with ...
Engineers use heat-free technology to make metallic replicas of a rose’s surface texture
Credit: Photo courtesy of Martin Thuo and his research group. AMES, Iowa - Nature has worked for eons to perfect ...
Princeton plays major role in new $115 million quantum science center
Credit: Image courtesy of Nathalie de Leon, Princeton University Princeton University will have a major leadership role in one of ...
A topography of extremes
On the track of unconventional superconductivity, researchers are charting unknown territoryCredit: Toni Helm/HZDR An international team of scientists from the ...
Planetary ball-milling helps protect our planet from plastics pollution
Researchers from Osaka University have developed eco-friendly polymer materials with extended functional lifespans that are self-healing, tough and recyclable, by ...
Fabrication of a single-crystal giant magnetoresistive device on a polycrystalline film
Technique may promote practical use of high-performance magnetoresistive devices comprising half-metallic heusler alloysCredit: NIMS NIMS and AIST have jointly succeeded ...
Nanodots made of photovoltaic material support waveguide modes
New spectroscopic technique for studying nanostructures demonstrates that stibnite nanodots can act as high-optical-quality waveguides and are promising candidates as ...
University of Illinois to lead two of seven new national artificial intelligence institutes
NSF- and USDA-NIFA-funded institutes will each receive about $2 millionM over 5 yearsCredit: Photo courtesy University of Illinois Board of ...
Scientists to discover the unique ductile properties of aluminum
During experiments on high-performance wire arc additive manufacturing researchers produced a metal with unique ductilityCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic ...
Samara Polytech scientists studied a new compound for lithium and sodium-ion batteries
The sample was first obtained by quenchingCredit: @SamaraPolytech Cathode materials based on sodium and d-metals fluorophosphates are in great demand ...
Novel alkaline hydrogel advances skin wound care
Scientists, including an undergraduate student, develop a novel method to produce an alkaline hydrogel that could be applied to healing ...
