A look at a recent study into the interactions of metal alloys at the nanometer and atomic scales.
29 June 2015
Strong lightweight carbon fibers made from recycled plant matter could replace glass fibers in high-performance composites used in cars and airplanes.
29 June 2015Cordelia Sealy
The promise of self-healing thermoplastic materials may be one step closer, thanks to recent work from Chinese researchers.
25 June 2015Laurie Winkless
Scientists have for the first time succeeded in assaying the stability of particles and their distribution within the body.
23 June 2015
Grinding carbon nanotubes to produce graphene nanoribbons.
22 June 2015Laurie Donaldson
Artificial skin that mimics squid camouflage.
22 June 2015Laurie Donaldson
Designer electronics out of the printer.
19 June 2015
Combining engineering with surface chemistry to precisely control the nano-accordion’s geometry, composition, and its overall material properties.
19 June 2015
Watch a video on Interstitial Flow in the Hierarchical Pore Space Architecture of Bone Tissue.
19 June 2015Zara Preston
Low-power PRAM flexible memory for wearable electronics.
18 June 2015David Bradley
Graphene filaments used to make tuneable on-chip light source.
18 June 2015David Bradley
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are developing a new kind of gripper.
17 June 2015
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking new energy-absorbing structure.
17 June 2015
Food Scientists and materials scientists and engineers gain new source of up-to-date, trustworthy reference content.
16 June 2015Zara Preston
Quick draw molecules can create outlines of simple shapes, templating, edge detection
15 June 2015David Bradley
A potential way to harvest some of the ‘lost’ frictional energy from rolling car tyres has been proposed by scientists.
15 June 2015Laurie Winkless
Ultracompact highly sensitive sensor for analyzing the chemical composition.
12 June 2015
Advanced method opens up new opportunities for investigation of dynamic processes.
12 June 2015
A fast, simple process for making microscopic clusters of nanoscale particles.
10 June 2015
Tuning friction between surfaces and superlubricity.
8 June 2015David Bradley
Researchers have shown how defects first form on the road to failure.
8 June 2015
Cedric Barroo (Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) has won the 2014 Frans Habraken Best Paper Award.
4 June 2015
The 2015 winner of the 2015 W.H. Zachariasen Award award has been announced: John Mauro of Corning, International.
4 June 2015
New synthetic material could be stronger than spider silk.
3 June 2015Laurie Donaldson
A team led by DESY scientists has designed, fabricated and successfully tested a novel X-ray lens.
2 June 2015
Stanford University scientists have created a new carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies.
2 June 2015