Origami-Inspired Robots Can Sense, Analyze, and Act in Challenging Environments
UCLA-led team built chip-free, autonomous OrigaMechs with conductive materials
Origami-Inspired Robots Can Sense, Analyze, and Act in Challenging Environments: Roboticists have been using a technique...
Can Synthetic Polymers Replace the Body’s Natural Proteins?
Can Synthetic Polymers Replace the Body’s Natural Proteins?: Most life on Earth is based on polymers of 20 amino acids that have evolved into...
Fluid Mixing Enables Scalable Manufacturing of Soft Polymer Structures
Fluid Mixing Enables Scalable Manufacturing of Soft Polymer: Researchers have developed and demonstrated an efficient and scalable technique that allows them to manufacture soft...
New Compound Could Lead to Next-Generation Energy Storage Devices
Flexible polymers made with a new generation of the Nobel-winning “click chemistry” reaction find use in capacitors and other applications
New Compound Could Lead to...
Engineered Wood Grows Stronger while Trapping Carbon Dioxide
Rice U. scientists’ method could lower both emissions and building construction costs
Engineered Wood Grows Stronger while Trapping Carbon Dioxide: Rice University scientists have figured out...
MIT Polymer Modular System to Produce Efficient and Scalable Aquabots
The system’s simple repeating elements can assemble into swimming forms ranging from eel-like to wing-shaped.
MIT Polymer Modular System to Produce Efficient and Scalable Aquabots:...
Researchers Develop Elastic Material that is Impervious to Gases and Liquids
Researchers Develop Elastic Material that is Impervious to Gases and Liquids: An international team of researchers has developed a technique that uses liquid metal...
Make Materials Thin Enough, and they Become Ferroelectric
Make Materials Thin Enough, and they Become Ferroelectric: Antiferroelectric materials have electrical properties that make them advantageous for use in high-density energy storage applications....
Superconductivity Switches On and Off in “Magic-Angle” Graphene
A quick electric pulse completely flips the material’s electronic properties, opening a route to ultrafast, brain-inspired, superconducting electronics.
Superconductivity Switches On and Off in “Magic-Angle”...
Microscopy Images Lead to New Ways to Control Excitons for Quantum Computing
Microscopy Images Lead to New Ways to Control Excitons for Quantum Computing: Excitons are drawing attention as possible quantum bits (qubits) in tomorrow’s quantum...
