Lasers could take 3-D printing to next level

Cars that go more than 1,000 miles on a single fill-up and smartphones that can run for days without recharging are among the possibilities...

Building A Stronger Body Armor

Texas A&M researchers have found that adding silicon to a material used to make body armor can make it more resilient to firearms. According to...

A bit of a stretch… material that thickens as it’s pulled

Scientists have discovered the first synthetic material that becomes thicker – at the molecular level – as it is stretched. Leeds researchers have discovered a...

Physicists shed X-ray light on melting polymers

Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and Lomonosov Moscow State University have combined thermal analysis and X-ray scattering—two techniques for...

Ford and MacDonald’s collaborate to convert coffee bean skin into car...

Ford Motor Company and McDonald’s USA will soon be giving vehicles a caffeine boost by using part of a familiar staple in the morning...

New ‘hyper glue’ formula developed

With many of the products we use every day held together by adhesives, researchers from UBC’s Okanagan campus and the University of Victoria hope...

This thermoplastic is learning a new trick: Walking

https://media.eurekalert.org/multimedia_prod/pub/media/218087_web.mp4 This video illustrates the role of the association process in devising a locomotive robot that ''learns'' to walk by irradiation. The LCN-based robot is...

Next-Generation Composites May Monitor Their Own Structural Health

Carbon fiber composites—lightweight and strong—are great structural materials for automobiles, aircraft and other transportation vehicles. They consist of a polymer matrix, such as epoxy,...

Alternative for petroleum polycarbonate

The Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) has developed a bio-polycarbonate which has been monopolized by Japan, and has opened up the possibility...

New ultralight material offers many uses for plastic waste

The National University of Singapore team said it had found a way to convert bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into aerogels that have...
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