Kirigami Inspires Better Bandages for Deformable Regions of the Body
Cutting kirigami-style slits in stretchy films could make for bandages, heat pads, and wearable electronics that adhere to flexible surfaces. Scraped up knees and elbows…
Materials Science
Weird Superconductor Leads Double Life
Understanding strontium titanate’s odd behavior will aid efforts to develop materials that conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at higher temperatures. Until about 50 years…
Scientists Mimic Neural Tissue in Next-Generation Soft Materials
U.S. Army-funded researchers at Brandeis University have discovered a process for engineering next-generation soft materials with embedded chemical networks that mimic the behavior of neural…
Chemical Engineers Develop a New Conductive Coating for Flexible Electronics
A team of researchers from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University have developed a mechanically robust conductive coating that can maintain performance under…
New Hydrogel Adhesive Seals Moving Tissues Even in the Presence of Blood
A Band-Aid adhesive bandage is an effective way to stop bleeding from skin wounds, but an equally viable option for internal bleeding does not yet…
Bioengineers Develop Hybrid Hydrogel System to Help Heal Bones
A team of UConn Health researchers has designed a novel, hybrid hydrogel system to help address some of the challenges in repairing bone in the…
Chemists Develop Nanostructures From Previously Impossible Material
How do you combine different elements in a crystal? At TU Wien, a method has now been developed for incorporating previously unattainably high proportions of…
Physicists Reveal Graphene is Both Insulator and Superconductor
It’s hard to believe that a single material can be described by as many superlatives as graphene can. Since its discovery in 2004, scientists have…
Scientists Identify Over 1,000 New 2D Materials for Nanotech
A team from EPFL and NCCR Marvel has identified more than 1,000 materials with a particularly interesting 2D structure. Their research, which made the cover…
New Laser-Induced Graphene Technique Opens Door for Edible Electronics
Electronics, the lifeblood of the modern world, could soon be part of our daily diet. In a study appearing in ACS Nano, scientists report that…
New MIT Study Reveals Why Polymer Stents Failed
Many patients with heart disease have a metal stent implanted to keep their coronary artery open and prevent blood clotting that can lead to heart…
Researchers Develop Metasurface to Manipulate Infrared Light
Optical waves propagating away from a point source typically exhibit circular (convex) wavefronts. “Like waves on a water surface when a stone is dropped,” explains…
Engineers Discover Inexpensive Material to Make High Color Quality LEDs
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has used data mining and computational tools to discover a new phosphor material…
New Sensor Reveals Lithium-Ion Batteries Can Safely Charge 5 Times Faster
Researchers at WMG at the University of Warwick have developed a new direct, precise test of Lithium-ion batteries’ internal temperatures and their electrodes potentials and…
Creating Predictable Patterns from Unpredictable Carbon Nanotubes
Integrating nanoscale fibers such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into commercial applications, from coatings for aircraft wings to heat sinks for mobile computing, requires them to…
Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells Demonstrate Exceptional Power Density and Stability
A team of researchers led by Northwestern University professor and fuel cell pioneer Sossina Haile has created a new fuel cell offering both exceptional power…
Rice Scientists Make Polymers with Light-Triggered Nanoparticles
Rice University scientists plan to employ the power of the sun to build functional synthetic polymers using photosensitive quantum dots — microscopic semiconducting particles —…
Shark Skin-Inspired Designs Improve Aerodynamic Performance
To build more aerodynamic machines, researchers are drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: the ocean. A team of evolutionary biologists and engineers at Harvard University,…