Optical pressure detector could improve robot skin
A new type of pressure sensor based on light could allow the creation of sensitive artificial skins to give robots a better sense of...
Schwarzites: Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene
The discovery of buckyballs surprised and delighted chemists in the 1980s, nanotubes jazzed physicists in the 1990s, and graphene charged up materials scientists in...
Flexible electronics breakthrough could lead to a revolution
A new form of electronics manufacturing which embeds silicon nanowires into flexible surfaces could lead to radical new forms of bendable electronics, scientists say.
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Wood fiber + bio-plastic = 98% bio-based kitchen products
Renewable solutions provider Stora Enso and the leading Nordic producer of household products Orthex Group have allied to make cooking just a little more...
Team develops a family of bioinspired artificial woods from traditional resins
Nature has provided the inspiration for the design and fabrication of high-performance biomimetic engineering materials. Wood, which has been used for thousands of years,...
Flat-pack homes and profit-sharing retrofits are making sustainable housing affordable
Wealth-generating, flat-pack solar houses and a profit-sharing scheme that incentivizes retrofitting are bringing sustainable living to people who would otherwise not be able to...
Biomimetic micro/nanoscale fiber reinforced composites
Over hundreds of millions of years of evolution, nature has produced a myriad of biological materials that serve either as skeletons or as defensive...
Tellurium nanoparticles achieve dielectric properties when exposed to sunlight
A team of researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in China has created a material with dual solar properties by adding tellurium nanoparticles to water—it...
Technyl® One New Generation: the Safety and Environment Insurance for...
Solvay Performance Polyamides introduces an enhanced version of Technyl® One, the company’s range of halogen-free flame-retardant materials. The new generation of products meets the...
UA Researchers Study How to Regrow Long Bone Segments Using 3D...
Not all broken bones heal. But one scientist at the University of Arizona hopes to remedy that problem using a combination of 3D printing...
